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Meanings of career criminal in English

Russian
рецидивист
Spanish
delincuente persistente

Person convicted of a new crime who was previously convicted of a crime(s)

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рецидивист
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Examples for "recidivist"
Examples for "recidivist"
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She is a recidivist offender against decency, honesty, progressive thought and morality.
News.com.au
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Why, oh why, are so many recidivist criminals given suspended sentences?
The Irish Times
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The country's worst recidivist drunk driver has appears in court again.
Radio NZ
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Mr Cullen said it was hard to stop recidivist offenders.
Radio NZ
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Photo: Photosport A bully and recidivist offender, Warner has appalled crowds the world over.
Radio NZ
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He might become an habitual offender from sheer stupidity, but in doing so, he injured no one but himself.
Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army
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Prison statistics show that habitual offenders do not commit suicide.
Monsieur Lecoq, v. 1
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The habitual offenders should be shut down, he said.
The Guardian
4
Among those who belong to the class of habitual offenders, a large proportion are intellectually deficient.
The History of Tasmania , Volume II
5
But the State must do something more than this; for many young habitual offenders are too young for emigration.
London's Underworld
1
A persistent offender even of fairly trivial wrongdoing is put to death without compunction.
The Girl in the Golden Atom
2
Like persistent offenders whose patterns of offence haven't been obvious to investigators.'
Another life
3
Take the precise arrangements for banishing persistent offenders from the web.
Wired
4
In the case of persistent offenders, the EU could ban them from its airports.
Reuters
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Ifab have said that the experiment was designed to take disciplinary action against persistent offenders.
The Irish Times
Usage of career criminal in English
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The career criminal Arthur Taylor has been released from prison this morning.
Radio NZ
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Virginia Vidaura-EnvoyCorps trainer, later career criminal and sometime political activist.
Woken furies
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The career criminal Arthur Taylor has just been released from prison.
Radio NZ
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She wasn't a career criminal, and the charges weren't serious.
Four to score
5
Charles Manson was a career criminal of the lowest order.
Exit strategy
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Killick was a career criminal with a penchant for armed bank robberies and forgery.
News.com.au
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He was a career criminal who used to rob everybody.
Ebony
8
The judge called him a con man and career criminal.
Fatal Voyage
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By the time he was 15 he had become a career criminal and heroin addict.
The Irish Times
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I'm not what you'd call a standard career criminal.
The Naked God
11
The ban on smoking in Auckland prison is declared unlawful, thanks to a career criminal.
Radio NZ
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Not surprisingly, one of the most compelling narratives came early on from career criminal Arthur Taylor.
Radio NZ
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Cruik was a career criminal and had lived through many close calls without losing his nerve.
Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex
14
Kelly was a career criminal dubbed 'the Godfather'.
The Irish Times
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He's a career criminal, Maxine, a con man.
Ford county: stories
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Five inmates, including career criminal and jailhouse lawyer Arthur Taylor, went to court to challenge the ban.
Radio NZ