offender meaning
EN
[-ɛndə(ɹ)] - NounPLoffendersPREoff-
- One who gives or causes offense.
- A person who commits an offense against the law, a lawbreaker.
- One who gives or causes offense.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Mercy to mean offenders we'll ostend. — J. Webster.
- After a mistake like that, there wasn't much to do besides bawl out the offender and clean up.
- If an offender recidivates during pretrial release, then he is detained after rearraignment under the 64 policies in Table 1 and the status quo policy.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of offender in English Dictionary
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- Nouns
- Countable nouns
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- en offenders
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "offender" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.