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Übertretung — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • deviation noun A departure from an expected, planned, or normal course of action.
  • infraction noun A breaking of a rule or law, usually a minor one.
  • prevarication noun Evasion of the truth.
  • transgression noun A violation of a law, rule, or moral code.

Senses

Übertretung is used for these senses in English:

  • deviation The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.
  • infraction (legal) A minor offence, petty crime.
  • prevarication (archaic, now, _, rare) Deviation from what is right or correct.
  • transgression A violation of a law, duty or commandment.
  • transgression An act that goes beyond generally accepted boundaries.

deviation — full definition

  1. noun A departure from an expected, planned, or normal course of action.
  2. noun In statistics, a measure of how far a single value differs from the average.

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