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breach /briːtʃ /noun1An act of breaking or failing to observe a law, agreement, or code of conduct: a breach of confidence [mass noun]: they alleged breach of copyright...- It says his actions were not in breach of the code of conduct, but he should have been advised by a planning officer and a note kept of the discussion and then circulated.
- This kind of moonlighting is in breach of the code of conduct of the civil service, according to a report by the government service commission.
- In the month before her death she had given a patient an injection when she was not qualified to do so, in breach of the nursing code of conduct and hospital policy.
Synonyms contravention, violation, breaking, non-observance, infringement, transgression, neglect, dereliction; failure to observe, non-compliance with; Law infraction, delict 1.1A break in relations: a widening breach between government and Church...- But once the tanks had rolled over the tents of the hunger strikers and once the bodies had been removed and the blood washed away, what was left was a breach between party and people that would never heal.
- And he should tell the Cuban leader that his revolution won't be won until the breach between Cuba and the USA is mended.
- Frankly, it would be difficult to imagine a greater breach between what residents of Toronto want for their city and the decisions that are being made about it.
Synonyms rift, gulf, chasm, division, difference, schism, disunion, estrangement, alienation, discord, dissension, disaffection; separation, split, break, break-up, parting, parting of the ways, severance, rupture; quarrel, falling-out British informal bust-up rare scission 2A gap in a wall, barrier, or defence, especially one made by an attacking army: a breach in the mountain wall...- The CASEVAC used the breach made by the sappers to get the vehicles on the OBJ.
- To prevent such an assault, defenders were forced to attack the siege engines or their operators to prevent a breach in their fortifications.
- The soldiers gave chase as their attack was shifted to the breach in the city wall.
Synonyms break, rupture, split, crack, fracture, rent, rift; opening, gap, hole, fissure, cleft, aperture verb [with object]1Make a gap in and break through (a wall, barrier, or defence): the river breached its bank...- For the first fortnight the Turks assaulted the land defences, breaching the outer walls, but could still not get inside.
- Last year's floods in Gowdall led to over 100 properties being flooded after a barrier bank was breached by the River Aire.
- That includes bringing back the 10-acre lake built in the 1740s, but drained in 1922 when the dam wall was breached.
Synonyms break (through), burst (through), rupture, force itself through, split informal bust 1.1Break or fail to observe (a law, agreement, or code of conduct): these outside bodies are bootlegging albums and breaching copyright...- A councillor who tried to hit a protester at a public meeting breached a code of conduct but will not face disciplinary action, an investigation found yesterday.
- But the Board has decided not to refer the matter to an Ethical Standards Officer for investigation as it has ruled that the comments had not breached its code of conduct.
- This worship is bred out of either greed of knowledge and favours or the fear of having breached some code of conduct, and sometimes out of respect for having found the answer.
Synonyms break, contravene, violate, fail to comply with, infringe, transgress against; defy, disobey, flout, fly in the face of; Law infract 2 [no object] (Of a whale) rise and break through the surface of the water: we saw whales breaching in the distance...- Glass structures fascinate me, and I'd like to work with that someday, to create a dolphin leaping out of the water or a whale breaching, something like that.
- Where would we be as a nation without bald eagles soaring over the Chesapeake Bay, wolves howling from the backcountry of Yellowstone or gray whales breaching from Pacific waters?
- Barely fifty yards from the boat a Humped Back Whale breached, rising over thirty feet out of the water before twisting and falling back into the sea with an amazing crash.
Phrasesbreach of contract breach of the peace breach of promise step into the breach OriginMiddle English: from Old French breche, ultimately of Germanic origin; related to break1. Rhymesbeach, beech, beseech, bleach, breech, each, impeach, leach, leech, outreach, peach, pleach, preach, reach, screech, speech, teach |