violations
- 1Plural of violation.
The company faced penalties for repeated environmental violations.
Human rights violations were documented by independent observers throughout the conflict.
Note
A regular plural, formed by adding -s, and it exists only for the countable uses of violation: separate breaches that can be counted, as in repeated environmental violations. When the word names the general fact of breaking a rule, it is uncountable and stays singular. The singular also has a euphemistic sense meaning rape and a slang sense meaning a severe insult, so context decides which meaning the plural carries.
violations is a form of violation
violation, noun: An instance of breaking a rule or law, or a failure to follow what is required. Full entry
- Forms
- violationviolations plural
- Spelling
- violation → violations: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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