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Definition of misdemeanant in English: misdemeanantnoun ˌmɪsdɪˈmiːnəntˌmɪsdəˈminənt formal A person convicted of a misdemeanour or guilty of misconduct. Example sentencesExamples - ‘Court and police precinct records show,’ a municipal agency maintained, ‘that in arrests, convictions, misdemeanants, felons, female police problems and juvenile delinquencies, these areas are in the lead.’
- In other words, the decision to arrest misdemeanants - adopting that policy in preference to other policing strategies - is a choice with significant distributional consequences for African Americans.
- It was a fate suffered both by the state prisoners, who were felons, and by county misdemeanants.
- It was much safer than today's Washington, D.C., with homicides running to one or two per cattle-trading season and marshals mostly concerned with arresting drunks and other misdemeanants.
- First, all sites operated according to a charge priority system, where non-drug felons, drug felons, non-drug misdemeanants, and drug misdemeanants were prioritized hierarchically.
OriginEarly 19th century: from archaic misdemean 'misbehave' + -ant. Definition of misdemeanant in US English: misdemeanantnounˌmisdəˈmēnəntˌmɪsdəˈminənt formal A person convicted of a misdemeanor or guilty of misconduct. Example sentencesExamples - First, all sites operated according to a charge priority system, where non-drug felons, drug felons, non-drug misdemeanants, and drug misdemeanants were prioritized hierarchically.
- ‘Court and police precinct records show,’ a municipal agency maintained, ‘that in arrests, convictions, misdemeanants, felons, female police problems and juvenile delinquencies, these areas are in the lead.’
- It was much safer than today's Washington, D.C., with homicides running to one or two per cattle-trading season and marshals mostly concerned with arresting drunks and other misdemeanants.
- In other words, the decision to arrest misdemeanants - adopting that policy in preference to other policing strategies - is a choice with significant distributional consequences for African Americans.
- It was a fate suffered both by the state prisoners, who were felons, and by county misdemeanants.
OriginEarly 19th century: from archaic misdemean ‘misbehave’ + -ant. |