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UNDER AGE

Synonyms within Context: UNDER AGE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Youth

Adjective: young, youthful, juvenile, green, callow, budding, sappy, puisne, beardless, under age, in one's teens; in statu pupillari; younger, junior; hebetic, unfledged.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: UNDER AGE

English words defined with "UNDER AGE": Age of mammalsHerod, Herod the GreatSecondary ageTertiary age. (references)
Specialty definitions using "UNDER AGE": age dependency ratiodependency ratioSpecial Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, Step familyYouth Opportunities Programme. (references)

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Modern Usage: UNDER AGE

DomainUsage

Screenplays

This girl looks under age, Des. Could mean prison (Whale Music; writing credit: Paul Quarrington;)

Movie/TV Titles

Under Age (1963)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Historic Usage: UNDER AGE

AuthorDateQuotation

Magna Carta

1215

If, however, the heir of any one of the aforesaid has been under age and in wardship, let him have his inheritance without relief and without fine when he comes of age. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: UNDER AGE

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Most heart transplant recipients are under age 60 and in good health other than their diseased heart. (references)

The family with a child under age three should be referred to the community zero-to-three service system. (references)

If the child is under age three, the family should consult the zero-to-three service system in their community. (references)

Business

Seventy three percent of the users are under age 30, 18% are between 31 and 50, and only 9% are older than 50. Only 24 of the leading 100 companies have websites, and there are only about 3,000 corporate sites. (references)

Children

Argentina

The most recent census (in 1991) noted that 4.5 million children under age 14 lived in impoverished conditions. (references)

Honduras

The Government estimated that 7,000 children (40 of every 1,000) under age 5 die each year because of inadequate health care. (references)

Japan

However, in 1999 the Diet passed a law banning sex with persons under age 18 as well as the production, sale, or distribution of child pornography. (references)

Economic History

Solomon Islands

Population (1997): 426,855 (45% under age 14). (references)

Algeria

According to 1986 data, 45% of the population is under age 15. (references)

Mongolia

About two-thirds of the total population are under age 30, 36% of whom are under 14. (references)

Human Rights

Suriname

There is a wing of an adult prison for boys under age 18 who have committed serious crimes. (references)

Malaysia

Juvenile courts try offenders under age 18. The Special Court tries cases against the King and sultans. (references)

Singapore

Women, men over age 50 or under age 16, and those determined unfit by a medical officer are exempted from punishment by caning. (references)

Political Economy

SWEDEN

Employees under age 18 may work only during daytime and under supervision. (references)

IRELAND

The law also limits the number of hours which children under age 18 may work. (references)

INDIA

A 1986 law bans employment of children under age 14 in hazardous occupations and strictly regulates child employment in other fields. (references)

Women

Senegal

Under certain conditions, a judge may grant a special dispensation to a person under age. (references)

Malaysia

In December 1999, a women's NGO issued a report that stated that the incidence of rape had increased 48 percent in the 5-year period from 1993 to 1998; more than 50 percent of rape victims are under age 16. Statistics from the Royal Malaysian Police show 1,354 reported cases of rape during the year. (references)

Worker Rights

Sri Lanka

Persons under age 16 may not be employed in any public enterprise in which life or limb is endangered. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: UNDER AGE

Expression using "UNDER AGE": be under age. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: UNDER AGE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

under age

175

under age porn

129

under age sex

100

under age girl

63

under age drinking

44

under age pussy

31

under age nude

26

free under age porn

12

under age boy

6

under age car rental

6

under age club

4

under age night club

3

driving under age

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: UNDER AGE

Language Translations for "UNDER AGE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

непълнолетен (infant, juvenile, minor), малолетен (infant). (various references)

   

Czech

  

nezletilý (minor, underage). (various references)

   

Danish

  

mindreårig. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

onmondig, minderjarig. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

alaikäinen (minor). (various references)

   

French

  

mineur (underage, unimportant). (various references)

   

German

  

Minderjährig (underage). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ανήλικος. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

קטין (minor). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kiskorú (minor, to be under age, underage). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

ófullveðja. (various references)

   

Italian

  

minorenne (juvenile, minor, underage). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

未丁年 (minority). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

みていね" (minority). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

mindreårig. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

erunday ageay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

menor de idade (minor), menor (less, lesser, minor, smaller, under). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

fi minor (be under age). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

несовершеннолетний (minor, minors, underage, under-age). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pupilar (pupilary, underage), menor de edad (minor), menor (infant, junior, juvenile, kid, least, less, lesser, littler, littlest, minor, scrawnier, skimpier, small, smaller, smallest, young, younger). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

minderårig (infant, juvenile, underage), omyndig (minor, underage). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yasal yaştan küçük, yaşı tutmayan (underage), reşit olmayan, erginlik yaşına varmamış. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

незрілий (callow, childish, embryonic, green, half-baked, immature, nascent, not ripe, puerile, verdant), неповнолітній (infant, juvenile, minor). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: UNDER AGE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dungaree, underage.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-n-r-u"

-1 letter: angered, derange, enraged, grandee, grenade, uneager.

-2 letters: agreed, argued, augend, danger, dengue, dragee, earned, endear, endure, enrage, enured, gander, garden, geared, gender, genera, gerund, neared, nudger, ranged, unaged, unread.

-3 letters: agene, agree, anger, argue, auger, denar, eager, eagre, eared, edger, ender, endue, enure, genre, genua, grade, grand, greed, green, guard, nuder, nudge, raged.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-g-n-r-u"
 

+1 letter: dungarees, underages.

 

+2 letters: encouraged, guaranteed, underglaze, unenlarged.

 

+3 letters: beardtongue, deuterating, guardedness, reeducating, undercharge, undereating, underglazes, unendearing, unregulated.

 

+4 letters: beardtongues, deregulating, deregulation, endeavouring, nonregulated, outgeneraled, unbridgeable, undercharged, undercharges, undergarment, unexpurgated, ungerminated, unintegrated, unsegregated.

 

+5 letters: counterargued, dangerousness, deregulations, deuteragonist, gelandesprung, gradualnesses, groundbreaker, guardednesses, overeducating, regardfulness, undercarriage, undergarments, undergraduate, underreacting, unguardedness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Quotations: Historic
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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