0 an action that is slightly bad or breaks a rule but is not a crime:
1 in the US, a crime that is less serious and has a less severe punishment than a felony (= a serious crime such as killing someone, stealing large amounts of money, etc.):
Violations of the fishing regulations may be considered a felony or misdemeanor, depending on the severity of the offense.
2 an action that is slightly bad or breaks a rule, but is not a crime:
Even so, their two years had definite achievements : their radical egalitarian and open approach led to ' a decline in petty theft and other misdemeanours ' (p. 56).
Parents need to be bolstered in that they need to be held more clearly financially accountable for the misdemeanours of their children.
Does he mean that it shall deal with matters of errors of judgment, which are not criminal offences or misdemeanours?
I am sure that advertising practitioners generally will welcome these provisions, because the misdemeanours of the unscrupulous reflect on the integrity of all advertisers.
In that way they would learn the nature of their misdemeanours.
Indeed, he is quite aware that to knowingly become involved in misdemeanours he could not only forfeit his position, but his qualifications as well.
The problem is whether evidence of misdemeanours, which we all wish to expose, would come out if the new clause applied.
Here we have eight men who may have been guilty of all sorts of misdemeanours, but what has happened?
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