Usually means: Violation of a law, agreement.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word breach:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. breach: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. breach: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. breach: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. breach: Collins English Dictionary
  5. breach: Vocabulary.com
  6. Breach, breach: Wordnik
  7. breach: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. BREACH, breach: Wiktionary
  9. breach: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. breach: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. breach: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Breach, breach: Dictionary.com
  13. breach: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. breach: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Breach: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. breach: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. breach: Rhymezone
  19. breach: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. breach: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. breach: Free Dictionary
  22. breach: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. breach: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. breach: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. breach: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. breach: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. breach: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. breach: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. BREACH: Acronym Finder
  2. breach: A Word A Day
  3. breach: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Breach: Easton Bible
  2. breach: Father Jeromes DICTIONARY of Words/Phrases Used in the QUFD Website

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. breach: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Breach: Dictionary of Military Architecture
  5. Breach: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence
noun:  The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
noun:  (law) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment.
noun:  A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling out.
noun:  (figurative) A difference in opinions, social class, etc.
noun:  A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves
noun:  A breaking out upon; an assault.
noun:  (archaic) A bruise; a wound.
noun:  (archaic) A hernia; a rupture.
verb:  (transitive) To make a breach in.
verb:  (transitive) To violate or break.
verb:  (transitive, nautical, of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
verb:  (intransitive) To suffer a breach.
verb:  (intransitive, of a whale or other sea creature) To leap out of the water.
verb:  (law, informal, transitive, usually passive) To charge or convict (someone) of breaching the terms of a bail, probation, recognizance, etc.
noun:  (computing) A particular security exploit against HTTPS when using HTTP compression, based on the CRIME exploit.

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