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[ US /vaɪəˈɫeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /va‍ɪ‍əlˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. an act that disregards an agreement or a right
    he claimed a violation of his rights under the Fifth Amendment
  2. a crime less serious than a felony
  3. a disrespectful act
  4. the crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will
  5. entry to another's property without right or permission

How To Use violation In A Sentence

  • ‘I have committed no violations,’ he said in the lobby of Parliament last Friday.
  • His possession of classified documents in his home was, at the very least, a violation of Navy security regulations.
  • This can entail harming companies that would be as efficient and as effective as Google is in these areas but for their limited access to consumers, creating a clear violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Act, of American law on monopolization, and on European competition law. Eric K. Clemons: One Click Away? Maybe and Maybe Not
  • Chief among the grievances I identify as providing primary justifying grounds for secession are these: persistent and serious violations of individual human rights and past unredressed unjust seizure of territory.
  • Separate from civilian courts, the military judicial system handles violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
  • He was his own worst enemy and his rash violation of Grant's departmental regulations caused his removal from command of his corps shortly before the fall of Vicksburg.
  • Its practice of paying the men their cash wages only once a month—a violation of Nevada law, which mandated semimonthly pay envelopes—guaranteed that the demand for scrip would remain robust and thus that the company store would continue to do “exceptionally good business with very gratifying profits,” as the Big Six board was informed that summer. Colossus
  • Unprivileged belligerency is not a violation of the law of war for Omar Khadr any more than it would be for you to fight against an invading army to protect your home and family. Balkinization
  • The judge called the decision "a flagrant violation of international law".
  • It is like buying a pig in a poke, " admitted Elizabeth Brickfield, the director of enforcement for the Parking Violations Bureau.
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