1 [U] activities that involve breaking the law:
an increase in violent crime * the fight against crime * Stores spend more and more on crime prevention every year. * petty / serious crime * the connection between drugs and organized crime * He turned to crime when he dropped out of school. * The crime rate is rising. * crime fiction / novels (= stories about crime) * crime figures / statistics
2 [C] ~ (against sb) an illegal act or activity that can be punished by law:
to commit a crime (= do sth illegal) * The massacre was a crime against humanity. * In his mind he was about to commit the perfect crime.
seealsoWARCRIME
3 (a crime) [sing.] an act that you think is immoral or is a big mistake:
It's a crime to waste so much money.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for crime is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is crime a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, crime is tagged as noun.
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