Crime vs Offense - What's the difference?
crime | offense |
(countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law.
(uncountable) The practice or habit of committing crimes.
(uncountable) criminal acts collectively.
Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity.
* Alexander Pope
(obsolete) That which occasions crime.
* Spenser
To commit (s).
* 1987 , Robert Sampson, Yesterday's Faces: From the Dark Side (ISBN 0879723637), page 61:
(en noun) (US)
The act of offending:
# a crime or sin
#* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
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, chapter=2 # an affront, insult or injury.
#* Dryden
The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure.
) A strategy and tactics employed when in position to score; ''contrasted with defense.
) The portion of a team dedicated to scoring when in position to do so; ''contrasted with defense.
As nouns the difference between crime and offense
is that crime is a specific act committed in violation of the law while offense is the act of offending.As a verb crime
is to commit crime(s).crime
English
(wikipedia crime)Noun
- Crime doesn’t pay.
- No crime' was thine, if 'tis no ' crime to love.
- the tree of life, the crime of our first father's fall
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "crime": organized, brutal, terrible, horrible, heinous, horrendous, hideous, financial, sexual, international.Synonyms
* (criminal acts collectively) delinquency, crime rate, criminalityHyponyms
* * * * * * *Derived terms
* crime against humanity * crime against nature * crimebuster * crime index * crime mapping * crime rate * criminal * criminal law * criminal record * criminology * decriminalization * international crime * organised crime / organized crime * sexual crime * war crime * white collar crimeVerb
(en-verb)- If, during the 1920s, the master criminal was a gamester, criming for self expression, during the 1930s he performed in other ways for other purposes.
See also
* offence * sin * administrative infraction (less serious violation of the law) ----offense
English
(wikipedia offense)Alternative forms
* (British standard spelling) offenceNoun
citation, passage=The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.}}
- I have given my opinion against the authority of two great men, but I hope without offence to their memories.
