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Etymology
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From Anglo-Norman offendour, equivalent to offend + -er.
Pronunciation
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offender (plural offenders)
- One who gives or causes offense, or does something wrong.
1961 March, Warren Smith, “The problems of train regulation - a study of operation at Trent”, in Trains Illustrated, page 169:Almost all down trains are late, however; the empty wagon trains are probably the worst offenders and one or two hours' late running by them is not unusual.
- A person who commits an offense against the law, a lawbreaker.
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one who gives or causes offense
a person who commits an offense against the law
- Arabic: جَانٍ (ar) (jānin)
- Belarusian: злачынец m (zlačynjec)
- Bulgarian: престъпник (bg) m (prestǎpnik)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 罪犯 (zh) (zuìfàn), 犯罪分子 (fànzuì fènzǐ), 違法者/违法者 (wéifǎzhě)
- Czech: zločinec (cs) m
- Dutch: schuldige (nl) m or f
- Finnish: syyllinen (fi)
- French: contrevenant (fr) m
- German: Täter (de) m
- Hungarian: jogsértő (hu), bűnöző (hu), bűnelkövető (hu)
- Indonesian: pelanggar (id)
- Irish: ciontóir m
- Italian: contravventore m, corrigendo (it) m (young)
- Japanese: 罪人 (ja) (ざいにん, zainin), 犯罪者 (ja) (はんざいしゃ, hanzaisha)
- Manx: foiljagh m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: lovbryter m
- Persian: خاطی (fa) (xâti), قانونشکن (qânun-šekan)
- Polish: przestępca (pl) m
- Portuguese: transgressor (pt) m, criminoso (pt) m
- Russian: престу́пник (ru) m (prestúpnik), престу́пница (ru) f (prestúpnica), правонаруши́тель (ru) m (pravonarušítelʹ), правонаруши́тельница (ru) f (pravonarušítelʹnica)
- Scottish Gaelic: ciontach m
- Spanish: delincuente (es) m, ofensor (es) m
- Swedish: gärningsman (sv) m or c, gärningskvinna (sv) f or c (uncommon)
- Telugu: అపరాధి (te) (aparādhi), నేరస్థుడు (te) m (nērasthuḍu)
- Welsh: pechadur m
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