Tra từ delinquent - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
juvenile delinquent
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
NOUN
child
▪ Residential care has long been associated with care of deprived and delinquent children.
subculture
▪ Below we reproduce Cohen's definition of a delinquent subculture.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ delinquent children
▪ Jail is not a good place to rehabilitate delinquent youths.
▪ The federal government hopes to increase its collection of delinquent taxes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Below we reproduce Cohen's definition of a delinquent subculture.
▪ Bono is derived from some gang name he acquired during a recent delinquent youth.
▪ Fundamentally she is a slightly delinquent page-boy with small buttocks and an upturned nose.
▪ He said collection of delinquent payments has increased from $ 8 billion to $ 11 billion under his administration.
▪ Intel converted part of the delinquent accounts receivable to a loan last fall.
▪ Terms of cash on delivery or advance payment should be instituted for future sales to consistently delinquent accounts.
▪ The pregnant woman who refuses to present herself for her regular scans is delinquent in her duty to herself and her baby.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
juvenile
▪ They could become a den for juvenile delinquents.
▪ He later worked with juvenile delinquents in a Florida youth services program.
▪ It is difficult to point to the material goals which football hooligans or juvenile delinquents are chasing.
▪ He didn't want to be a juvenile delinquent.
▪ The other people were a mixture of juvenile delinquents and retarded middle aged criminals.
▪ This week's focus is on juvenile delinquents.
young
▪ He blames most of the problem on young local delinquents.
▪ Consider Shakespeare's only fully-realised portrait of a young delinquent: Prince Hal.
▪ Many people feared that the 1969 Act was too radical and would make life too easy for the young delinquent.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He blames most of the town's problems on local delinquents.
▪ More than half of all juvenile delinquents currently in state institutions have disturbed family backgrounds.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He blames most of the problem on young local delinquents.
▪ It is difficult to point to the material goals which football hooligans or juvenile delinquents are chasing.
▪ Moreover, it is perhaps doubtful whether many delinquents hold openly oppositional views or values as Cohen suggests.
▪ The definition of an individual as a delinquent provides an example.
▪ The process of becoming a delinquent is the same as the process of becoming, let us say, a Boy Scout.

delinquent

I. de‧lin‧quent¹ /dɪˈlɪŋkwənt/ adjective
[date : 1400-1500; Language : Latin; Origin : delinquere 'to fail, offend', from linquere 'to leave']
1. behaving in a way that is illegal or that society does not approve of ⇨ criminal
delinquent girls/boys/children/teenagers

2. technical a delinquent debt, account etc has not been paid on time:
　 ▪ the recovery of delinquent loans

II. delinquent² noun [COUNTABLE]
someone, especially a young person, who breaks the law or behaves in ways their society does not approve of:
　 ▪ Deanes writes and lectures about teenage delinquents.
⇨ juvenile delinquent
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THESAURUS
▪criminal someone who is involved in illegal activities or has been proved guilty of a crime. Criminal is used especially about someone who often does things that are illegal :
　 ▪ Criminals are stealing people's credit card details off the Internet.
　 ▪ He is one of the most wanted criminals in the United States.
▪offender someone who breaks the law :
　 ▪ The courts should impose tougher punishments on offenders.
　 ▪ a special prison for young offenders
▪crook informal a dishonest person, especially one who steals money and who you cannot trust :
　 ▪ Some politicians are crooks, but not all of them.
　 ▪ They're just a bunch of crooks.
▪felon law especially American English someone who has committed a serious crime :
　 ▪ Convicted felons should not be allowed to profit from their crimes.
▪the culprit the person who has done something wrong or illegal :
　 ▪ The culprits were never found.
　 ▪ If I ever catch the culprit, he or she is in big trouble.
　 ▪ The culprits were just six years old.
▪delinquent a young person who behaves badly and is likely to commit crimes - used especially in the phrase juvenile delinquent :
　 ▪ He later worked with juvenile delinquents in a Florida youth services program.
▪accomplice someone who helps a criminal to do something illegal :
　 ▪ Police believe the murderer must have had an accomplice.