RECIDIVISM

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Habitual relapse into crime

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("recidivism" is a kind of...):

backsliding; lapse; lapsing; relapse; relapsing; reversion; reverting (a failure to maintain a higher state)

Derivation:

recidivate (go back to bad behavior)

recidivist (someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior)

recidivist (someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior))

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