victimless en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyk-der. Latin victima Middle French victimebor. English victim Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English victimless From victim + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable, qualifier:crime) Without a victim.
They have got fairly liberal laws on victimless crimes, but the Los Angeles police are still busy entrapping homosexualists because the police chief in Los Angeles is very antifag.
1983, Michael Denneny, Charles Ortleb, Thomas Steele, The Christopher Street reader, page 297:He said that prostitution, drug trafficking, and gambling were victimless crimes.
Coordinates
Deriveds
victimlessness · victimless crime
Translations (1)
nl slachtofferloos (without a victim)