Victimless Crime

  

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Victimless Crime

Definition: Victimless Crime

Victimless Crime

Noun

1. An act that is legally a crime but that seem to have no victims; "he considers prostitution to be a victimless crime".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Modern Usage: Victimless Crime

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Shoplifting is a victimless crime. Like punching someone in the dark. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Victimless Crime

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

victimless crime

42
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Victimless Crime

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-i-i-i-l-m-m-r-s-s-t-v"

-3 letters: cervicitises.

-4 letters: semicircles, servilities.

-5 letters: cervicitis, criticises, criticisms, eremitisms, semicircle, victimises, victimless.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Victimless Crime


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 69 63 74 69 6D 6C 65 73 73      43 72 69 6D 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01101001 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101101 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 00100000 01000011 01110010 01101001 01101101 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#105 &#99 &#116 &#105 &#109 &#108 &#101 &#115 &#115 &#32 &#67 &#114 &#105 &#109 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0069 0063 0074 0069 006D 006C 0065 0073 0073      0043 0072 0069 006D 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5675698675797871858523784757971

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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