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单词 misdemeanant
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Definition of misdemeanant in English:

misdemeanant

noun ˌmɪsdɪˈmiːnəntˌmɪsdəˈminənt
formal
  • A person convicted of a misdemeanour or guilty of misconduct.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • ‘Court and police precinct records show,’ a municipal agency maintained, ‘that in arrests, convictions, misdemeanants, felons, female police problems and juvenile delinquencies, these areas are in the lead.’
    • In other words, the decision to arrest misdemeanants - adopting that policy in preference to other policing strategies - is a choice with significant distributional consequences for African Americans.
    • It was a fate suffered both by the state prisoners, who were felons, and by county misdemeanants.
    • It was much safer than today's Washington, D.C., with homicides running to one or two per cattle-trading season and marshals mostly concerned with arresting drunks and other misdemeanants.
    • First, all sites operated according to a charge priority system, where non-drug felons, drug felons, non-drug misdemeanants, and drug misdemeanants were prioritized hierarchically.

Origin

Early 19th century: from archaic misdemean 'misbehave' + -ant.

Definition of misdemeanant in US English:

misdemeanant

nounˌmisdəˈmēnəntˌmɪsdəˈminənt
formal
  • A person convicted of a misdemeanor or guilty of misconduct.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • First, all sites operated according to a charge priority system, where non-drug felons, drug felons, non-drug misdemeanants, and drug misdemeanants were prioritized hierarchically.
    • ‘Court and police precinct records show,’ a municipal agency maintained, ‘that in arrests, convictions, misdemeanants, felons, female police problems and juvenile delinquencies, these areas are in the lead.’
    • It was much safer than today's Washington, D.C., with homicides running to one or two per cattle-trading season and marshals mostly concerned with arresting drunks and other misdemeanants.
    • In other words, the decision to arrest misdemeanants - adopting that policy in preference to other policing strategies - is a choice with significant distributional consequences for African Americans.
    • It was a fate suffered both by the state prisoners, who were felons, and by county misdemeanants.

Origin

Early 19th century: from archaic misdemean ‘misbehave’ + -ant.

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