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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Obeying & breaking the law
abide
abide by something
adhere
adhere to something
afoul
bac
buck
commission
comply
contravene
derogation
disobey
enforcer
fall foul of somethingidiom
go by the book
guiltiness
guilty
shalt
venal
violation

infringement | Business English

infringement
noun[ C or U ]
 LAW/ɪnˈfrɪndʒmənt/ukus
an action that is against a law, an agreement, etc.:
infringement of sthThe report argues that the penalty for online infringement of copyright should be increased.
an infringement claim/lawsuit
copyright/patent/trademark infringement

Examples of infringement

infringement
In terms of research design, our selected cases include directives with and without infringements, and with and without transposition delays.
The evidence shows that states' incentives to deviate and discretion affect the likelihood of infringements and delays.
Table 6 shows that, on average, policy performances that are the subject of infringements are subject to somewhat shorter transposition delays.
Table 3 also compares the cases with infringements and those without in relation to the discretion granted to member states in the directives.
The significant negative interaction term indicates that high discretion reduces the impact of incentives to deviate on the likelihood of infringements.
To be consistent, we must be willing to condemn infringements on the rights of the disenfranchised at home as well as abroad.
However, to stop the proliferation of conflicting standards, firms were encouraged to monitor implementation and infringements by rivals.
However, these scholars want to focus on explaining infringements which implies a different empirical focus.
As mentioned above, we test these hypotheses using infringements and delays.
Therefore, when examining variation in infringements and delays, we control for differences amongst countries.
The timeliness of national transposition is distinct from infringements, and we would therefore expect different dynamics to be at play.
Discretion does not appear to have a direct effect on the likelihood of infringements, as suggested by our second hypothesis.
While the vast majority of the infringements it pursues relate to environmental issues, not all of them do.
Pursuit of public health purposes without the habit of self-critical reflection on potential harms to individuals risks involving physicians in all manner of infringements on personal rights.
The idea that rights will and can be protected only by courts also gives insufficient attention to the possible occurrence of rights infringements that may never be litigated.
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Collocations withinfringement

infringement

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alleged infringement
What has happened in this case is an alleged infringement of the existing arrangements by a trawler.
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