单词 | repeat offender |
释义 | > as lemmasrepeat offender b. Forming compounds denoting a person who does something (implied by the second element) again or repeatedly, as repeat customer, repeat offender, repeat viewer, repeat visitor, etc. ΚΠ 1906 Pearson's Mag. July 108/2 It is your ‘repeat’ customers that make your business profitable. 1940 Science 16 Aug. 143/2 An immense public, equivalent numerically—not allowing for repeat visitors—to approximately four per cent. of the total population of the entire nation. 1952 F. Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth in Galaxy June 33/2 Survey the book-buyers, the repeat-viewers of O' Shea's TV shows. 1978 Washington Post 8 Aug. c4/5 Many juveniles, he adds, are repeat offenders, ‘recycled’ through the system. 1986 A. Isserman Population Change & Econ. i. 16 Demographers have noted that a large proportion of migrants are repeat migrants or return migrants. 1993 Parents June 65/4 (heading) About 80% of repeat miscarriers suffer from polycystic ovary syndrome. 2003 Philadelphia Inquirer 11 July a14/2 Judges could be ordering repeat offenders to equip their vehicles with ignition switches that work only when a driver proves his or her sobriety by blowing into a tube. < as lemmas |
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