Assassination vs Homicide - What's the difference?
assassination | homicide | Synonyms |
killing or murder for political reasons
(uncountable) The killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.
(countable) A person who kills another.
(countable, US, police jargon) A victim of homicide; a person who has been unlawfully killed by someone else.
* 1996 , A J Holt, Watch Me [http://print.google.com/print?id=AeiWDMxtf70C&pg=PA146&lpg=PA146&sig=58bpIF6WRwzfzHU-U8U9ZrEbME0]:
* 2003 , Ellen Perry Berkeley, Keith's People (ISBN 1930859449), page 58:
* 2004 , Jon Talton, Dry Heat (ISBN 0312333854), page 40:
Homicide is a synonym of assassination.
As nouns the difference between assassination and homicide
is that assassination is killing or murder for political reasons while homicide is the killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.assassination
English
(wikipedia assassination)Noun
(en noun)- The assassination of the king occurred at night.
See also
* targeted killinghomicide
English
Noun
(wikipedia homicide) (en noun)- “She was a hippie kid. How hard would you work a case like that?”
- “As hard as anyone else,” said Goddard. There was an irritated note in his voice. “She was a homicide'. She got what every ' homicide investigation gets.”
- We don't even know the woman was a homicide . Didn't they say it was possible they both jumped?
- The medical examiner was behind on autopsies and cranky, so we didn't even know if the old guy in the pool was a homicide .