0 an act of breaking a law, promise, agreement, or relationship:
1 a hole that is made in a wall or in another structure being used for protection during an attack:
2 to break a law, promise, agreement, or relationship:
3 to make an opening in a wall or fence, especially in order to attack someone or something behind it:
5 an opening in a wall or fence or in a line of military defense
6 a failure to obey a law or to do what was promised or agreed:
breach of sth Companies face fines of up to €75,000 for each breach of the legislation.
be/constitute a breach To publish in this form would constitute a breach of copyright.
a clear/flagrant/blatant breach His refusal to account for the money was a flagrant breach of all rules of professional conduct.
a serious/fundamental/grave breach
The property developer was awarded $2,000,000 for breach of contract over the restaurant chain's withdrawal from a lease.
Both the Stock Exchange and the panel cleared the bank of any breach of regulations or insider-trading.
The public are used to breaches of promise by governments.
8 to be breaking a particular law or rule:
9 to not obey a law or to not do what was promised or agreed:
The corporation was sued for allegedly breaching a contract to supply voice-mail systems.
The organization's conduct during the conflict breached international law, according to a leading human rights group.
breach rules/regulations
Since the group warned it was in danger of breaching its banking covenants last week, the shares have tumbled 47%.
More significantly, in the second parasite, breaches of the outer plasma membrane were evident extending over 1-5 % of the body surface in transverse sections.
We know when a peace agreement has been signed or breached.
In addition, our preliminary analyses indicated that breaches that might represent moral transgressions were uncommon.
In contrast, situational breaches and breaches of moral or social standards occur infrequently, and can vary widely in context, salience, and significance.
However, these extraterrestrial invaders of suburbia have breached humanity's ultimate boundary, that between itself and the universe.
The crisis generated such antagonism between the opposing groups that even the facade of carefully constructed politeness that marked late eighteenthcentury society was breached.
As healthcare organizations throughout the world deploy electronic health records, they will almost certainly experience breaches that engender unexpected and nonsensical situations.
Like computer-hackers breaching elaborate security systems to disrupt large organizations, they may have been secretly demonstrating their own cleverness.
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違背承諾/違反規定, 破壞,違犯, 違反,不履行…
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