harassment en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French harassement. By surface analysis, harass + -ment.
Meanings
- (countable, uncountable) Persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress.
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(countable, uncountable) Deliberate pestering or intimidation.
“As a result, OCR found that the district’s pattern of inconsistent responses to reports it received of sexual harassment – infrequently responding under Title IX or not responding at all – rose to the level that the district’s response to some families’ sexual harassment reports was deliberately indifferent to students’ civil rights,” a news release from DOE reads.
2024 November 14, Lauren del Valle, “After suicide of nonbinary teen, DOE finds multiple Title IX violations at Oklahoma school district”, in CNN:
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(countable, uncountable) The use of repeated small-scale attacks to wear down an enemy force.
Throughout this period, and beyond, into the rest of the battle, aircraft of various types and loadouts are crisscrossing the skies in desperate harassment attacks, with the pilots having to play constant games of "guess the carrier" to decide where to land as escort carriers are hit, sunk, disappear in columns of shell splashes, or are forced to evade at angles to the wind that make landing on them impossible.
2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 27:22 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| harassments | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
sexual harassment · cyberharassment · harizzment · nonharassment · overharassment · textual harassment · harassment and interdiction · street harassment · antiharassment
Descendants
Synonyms
Translations (55)
ru домога́тельство (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · fr harcèlement (deliberate pestering or annoying) · pl prześladowanie (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · pl dręczenie (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · de Aufdringlichkeit (deliberate pestering or annoying) · sv trakasseri (deliberate pestering or annoying) · pl napastowanie (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · ru беспоко́йство (deliberate pestering or annoying) · es acoso (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · ru агре́ссия (deliberate pestering or annoying) · bn জ্বালাতন (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · tr taciz (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · da chikane (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · enm vexynge (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · fi ahdistelu (deliberate pestering or annoying) · ru притесне́ние (deliberate pestering or annoying) · ru ха́рассмент (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · ca assetjament (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · da chikane (deliberate pestering or annoying) · ro imoportunare (deliberate pestering or annoying) · ru хара́ссмент (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · fr harcèlement (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · de Belästigung (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · bg тормо́з (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · bg дра́знене (deliberate pestering or annoying) · es hostigamiento (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · gd sàrachadh (deliberate pestering or annoying) · ro pustiire (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · gd sàrachadh (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · nl pesterij (deliberate pestering or annoying) · ru оскорбле́ние (deliberate pestering or annoying) · pl molestowanie (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · tr taciz (deliberate pestering or annoying) · fi ahdistelu (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · cmn 騷擾 /骚扰 (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · ko 괴롭힘 (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · ro distrugere (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · he הַטְרָדָה (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · ar تَحَرُّش (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · pt assédio (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · it vessazione (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · fi häirintä (deliberate pestering or annoying) · it molestia (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · de Belästigung (deliberate pestering or annoying) · enm vexacioun (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · sv trakasseri (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · ru домога́тельства (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · hi उत्पीड़न (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · ja 嫌がらせ (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · mi whakatīwhetatanga (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · el παρενόχληση (persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress) · pt assédio (deliberate pestering or annoying) · ota تعجیز (deliberate pestering or annoying) · ro deranj (deliberate pestering or annoying) · pt incômodo (deliberate pestering or annoying)