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Victimless Crime

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Noun

1. victimless crime

an act that is legally a crime but that seem to have no victims

Example Sentences:
'he considers prostitution to be a victimless crime'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Victimless Crime

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noun
a type of crime, such as insurance fraud, regarded by some people as being excusable because the victim is the state or an organization, rather than an individual

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Victimless Crime

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a statutory crime, such as prostitution or gambling, regarded as having no clearly identifiable victim

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Victimless Crime

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n.
An illegal act that results in no identifiable person being directly harmed.

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