'Infringement' definitions:
Definition of 'infringement'
(from WordNet)
noun
An act that disregards an agreement or a right; "he claimed a violation of his rights under the Fifth Amendment" [syn: violation, infringement]
noun
A crime less serious than a felony [syn: misdemeanor, misdemeanour, infraction, violation, infringement]
Definition of 'Infringement'
From: GCIDE
- Infringement \In*fringe"ment\, n.
- 1. The act of infringing; breach; violation; nonfulfillment; as, the infringement of a treaty, compact, law, or constitution. [1913 Webster]
- The punishing of this infringement is proper to that jurisdiction against which the contempt is. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An encroachment on a patent, copyright, or other special privilege; a trespass. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'infringement'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adoption,
- appropriation,
- arrogation,
- assumption,
- bad faith,
- bankruptcy,
- borrowed plumes,
- breach,
- breach of contract,
- breach of faith,
- breach of law,
- breach of privilege,
- breach of promise,
- breach of trust,
- breakage,
- breakdown,
- breaking,
- civil disobedience,
- collapse,
- contravention,
- copying,
- crack-up,
- crippling,
- damage,
- derivation,
- deriving,
- destruction,
- detriment,
- dilapidation,
- disablement,
- disobedience,
- disrepair,
- encroachment,
- entrance,
- entrenchment,
- frowardness,
- harm,
- hobbling,
- hurt,
- hurting,
- imitation,
- impairment,
- impingement,
- imposition,
- incapacitation,
- incursion,
- indiscipline,
- indocility,
- infiltration,
- influx,
- infraction,
- injection,
- injury,
- inroad,
- insinuation,
- insubordination,
- interference,
- interjection,
- interloping,
- interposition,
- interposure,
- interruption,
- intervention,
- intractability,
- intrusion,
- invasion,
- irruption,
- lawbreaking,
- lawlessness,
- loss,
- maiming,
- mayhem,
- mischief,
- mocking,
- mutilation,
- naughtiness,
- noncompliance,
- nonconformity,
- noncooperation,
- nonobedience,
- obtrusion,
- offense,
- overstepping,
- passive resistance,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- pirating,
- plagiarism,
- plagiary,
- playing God,
- recusancy,
- ruination,
- ruinousness,
- sabotage,
- scathe,
- seizure,
- sickening,
- simulation,
- spoiling,
- taking,
- transgression,
- trespass,
- trespassing,
- uncooperativeness,
- unduteousness,
- undutifulness,
- unlawful entry,
- unsubmissiveness,
- usurpation,
- violation,
- violation of law,
- waywardness,
- weakening,
- willful disobedience