Usually means: Minor criminal offense, less serious.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word misdemeanour:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. misdemeanour: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. misdemeanour: Merriam-Webster
  3. misdemeanour: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. misdemeanour: Collins English Dictionary
  5. misdemeanour: Vocabulary.com
  6. misdemeanour: Wordnik
  7. misdemeanour: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. misdemeanour: Wiktionary
  9. misdemeanour: Dictionary.com
  10. Misdemeanour: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. misdemeanour: Rhymezone
  12. misdemeanour: FreeDictionary.org
  13. misdemeanour: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. misdemeanour: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. misdemeanour: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. misdemeanour: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. misdemeanour: Medical dictionary

(Note: See misdemeanours as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (British spelling) Alternative form of misdemeanor [(law, criminology, historical in UK) A lesser criminal act in most common law legal systems, generally punished less severely than a felony.]

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