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  • 1acquit — ac·quit /ə kwit/ vb ac·quit·ted, ac·quit·ting [Old French acquiter to pay off, absolve, acquit, from a , prefix marking causation + quite free (of an obligation)] vt: to discharge completely: as a: to release from liability for a debt or other… …

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  • 2crime of passion — n. A crime committed in the heat of sudden passion. The Essential Law Dictionary. Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008. crime of passion A crime committed while in the th …

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  • 3Crime and the city solution — était un groupe de rock formée par le chanteur, auteur compositeur et interprète Simon Bonney. La composition changea quatre fois, chaque nouvelle formation marquant : Sydney en 1977 78, Melbourne en 1979, et Berlin dans la période de 1985 à …

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  • 4Crime and The City Solution — était un groupe de rock formée par le chanteur, auteur compositeur et interprète Simon Bonney. La composition changea quatre fois, chaque nouvelle formation marquant : Sydney en 1977 78, Melbourne en 1979, et Berlin dans la période de 1985 à …

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  • 5crime — crimeless, adj. crimelessness, n. /kruym/, n. 1. an action or an instance of negligence that is deemed injurious to the public welfare or morals or to the interests of the state and that is legally prohibited. 2. criminal activity and those… …

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  • 6crime — noun 1 illegal act ADJECTIVE ▪ appalling (esp. BrE), awful, bloody, brutal, despicable, dreadful (esp. BrE), grave, great, heinous, horr …

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  • 7acquit — UK [əˈkwɪt] / US verb [transitive] Word forms acquit : present tense I/you/we/they acquit he/she/it acquits present participle acquitting past tense acquitted past participle acquitted [usually passive] to state officially that someone is not… …

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  • 8acquit — ac|quit [əˈkwıt] v past tense and past participle acquitted present participle acquitting [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: acquiter, from quite free of ] 1.) [T usually passive] to give a decision in a court of law that someone is not… …

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  • 9acquit — /əˈkwɪt / (say uh kwit) verb (t) (acquitted, acquitting) 1. (sometimes followed by of) to relieve from a charge of fault or crime; pronounce not guilty. 2. to release or discharge (a person) from an obligation. 3. to settle (a debt, obligation,… …

  • 10acquit — [[t]əkwɪ̱t[/t]] acquits, acquitting, acquitted 1) VERB: usu passive If someone is acquitted of a crime in a court of law, they are formally declared not to have committed the crime. [be V ed of n] Mr Ling was acquitted of disorderly behaviour by… …

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