infraction

[ in-frak-shuhn ]

noun

1. breach; violation; infringement:

   an infraction of the rules.

2. Medicine/Medical. an incomplete fracture of a bone.

Other Words From

• nonin·fraction noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of infraction¹

First recorded in 1615–25, infraction is from the Latin word infrāctiōn- (stem of infrāctiō ). See infract, -ion

Synonym Study

See breach.

Example Sentences

City Attorney Mara Elliott said she supports that idea as well, but because the tickets are handled administratively, as infractions, her office isn’t involved in the prosecution.

From Voice of San Diego

The tickets are infractions, which are handled administratively.

From Voice of San Diego

There were more shooting fouls drawn, but there were also more freedom of movement infractions that occurred before the shot.

From FiveThirtyEight

A ticket of this nature is likely to fail a constitutional challenge, but because police have been issuing the tickets as infractions, rather than misdemeanors, they’re handled administratively, not criminally.

From Voice of San Diego

Because the tickets were filed in recent years as infractions rather than misdemeanors, the process has played out administratively, not criminally.

From Voice of San Diego

Then comes a combination of tools based on the specific infraction.

From The Daily Beast

The fee for such an administrative infraction is approximately $30.

From The Daily Beast

They all were insisting that their alleged crime was really an administrative infraction.

From The Daily Beast

Two weeks later, came another, bigger penalty, for the same infraction, and then a third.

From The Daily Beast

Also, a “significant misdemeanor” or other infraction could disrupt their stay.

From The Daily Beast

But it soon became apparent that his infraction of discipline in crossing the Ohio was not forgiven.

From Project Gutenberg

They were, besides, made amenable to a most rigorous system of laws, the least infraction of which was punished with death.

From Project Gutenberg

Most of them are the penalties imposed by nature because of the infraction of her laws.

From Project Gutenberg

To be found under a convoy is not, in itself, an infraction of the treaty, but the conduct of this convoy is to be considered.

From Project Gutenberg

All must obey, or compose, the same laws that ran without infraction through the entire experience of man.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• breach
• crime
• error
• infringement
• lapse
• offense
• sin
• transgression