repeat offender (plural repeat offenders)
- A person who has previously offended against the law, often someone who may be deemed incorrigible.
- Synonyms: recidivist, reoffender, career criminal
- One who performs a specific (often undesirable) action on multiple occasions.
2011, Jeff Reid, Cat-Dependent No More, →ISBN:At the risk of being branded a repeat offender. I must admit that this chapter is a reprise, in miniature, of an earlier book of mine with the same title.
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- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 慣犯/惯犯 (zh) (guànfàn)
- Czech: recidivista (cs) m
- Dutch: recidivist (nl) m, recidiviste f, draaideurcrimineel (nl)
- Finnish: uusintarikollinen
- French: récidiviste (fr) m or f
- German: Mehrfachtäter (de) m, Mehrfachtäterin f, Wiederholungstäter (de) m, Wiederholungstäterin (de) f
- Indonesian: residivis (id) c, bramacorah (id) c, penjahat kambuhan (id) c
- Macedonian: рецидиви́ст m (recidivíst), рецидиви́стка f (recidivístka)
- Polish: recydywista (pl) m, recydywistka (pl) f
- Portuguese: reincidente m or f
- Russian: рецидиви́ст (ru) m (recidivíst), рецидиви́стка (ru) f (recidivístka)
- Spanish: reincidente (es) m or f
- Swedish: återfallsförbrytare (sv) c, recidivist c
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