Какво означава contravention на английски?

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contravention Значение & определение

0 the act of doing something that a law or rule does not allow, or an instance of this:
- By accepting the money, she was in contravention of company regulations.
- These are all blatant contraventions of the UN Declaration on Human Rights.
1 an action that is against a law or rule, or that is not what you promised or were expected to do:
- (a) contravention of sth The use of unguarded candles is a contravention of the 1981 Hotels & Boarding House Act.
- be in contravention of sth We are trying to understand in what way we may have been in contravention of the law.
- Council may serve a contravention notice if the builder fails to submit plans before starting construction work.

They were found to be in contravention of the law.
This was a flagrant contravention of the "Treating customers fairly" initiative.
The alleged contravention was reasonable and justifiable in the circumstances.
But they also suspected that the ship might have come in search of trade in deliberate contravention of the ban on foreign trade and intercourse.
The contravention of governance, law, and discourse might engender conflict in itself.
It implies two conditions : a set of ordered relations and a contravention of that order.
In one there may have been wellintentioned but misguided contravention of the randomized allocation by clinicians to ' protect ' known patients who they considered too ill for the experimental service.
Thus, moral behaviour is sustained by the value of reputation, which in turn depends on there being a network of associations, so that contraventions of morality become generally known.