Usually means: Reoffending after previous criminal conviction.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. recidivism: Merriam-Webster
  2. recidivism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. recidivism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. recidivism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. recidivism: Vocabulary.com
  6. Recidivism, recidivism: Wordnik
  7. recidivism: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. recidivism: Wiktionary
  9. recidivism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. recidivism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. recidivism: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. recidivism: Dictionary.com
  13. Recidivism (medicine), Recidivism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. recidivism: Rhymezone
  15. recidivism: FreeDictionary.org
  16. recidivism: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. recidivism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. recidivism: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. recidivism: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. recidivism: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recidivism: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. recidivism: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Recidivism: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. recidivism: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recidivism: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (recidivism)

noun:  Committing new offenses after a crime committed in the past.
noun:  (psychology, psychiatry) Chronic repetition of criminal or other antisocial behavior.
noun:  (by extension) Returning to a negative behavior after having stopped it for a period of time.

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