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repeat offend en · VERB

Etymology

Back-formation from repeat offender.

Meanings

1. To offend again, especially after being punished for a first offence; to reoffend, to recidivate.
   • law enforcement is not a significant way to deter their offending, though it is a significant way to identify who is offending after they have repeat-offended. 2006, Irvin Waller, Less Law, More Order: The Truth about Reducing Crime, →ISBN, page 23:
   • This trip into the Jail system was not one that was going to be filled with fun and games. He was headed into hard time with no visible release date. Here this was a repeat offender headed to face criminal prosecution. He repeat offended before the last criminal offense was settled in the courts. This time the boy was without certain mental faculties. 2006, Gary Drewes, The Silent Vow: Volume III, →ISBN:
   • He had no idea why he repeat offended with Cindy. Yes, he fancied her but no more or less than he fancied a hundred women that he saw walking down the street in one day. 2010, Adele Parks, Men I've loved before, →ISBN:

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