different between violation vs misconduct

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French violation, from Latin viol?ti? (“injury, profanation”), from viol? (“I treat with violence; I maltreat; I violate, defile, profane”).Morphologically violate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?va???le???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

violation (countable and uncountable, plural violations)

1. The act or an instance of violating or the condition of being violated.
   1. An infraction or a failure to follow a rule.
   2. (euphemistic) Rape; sexual activity forced on another person without their consent.

Synonyms

• transgression
• desecration

See breach.

Antonyms

• compliance
• obedience

Related terms

• violate
• violable
• violative
• violator

Translations

Anagrams

• avolition

French

Pronunciation

Noun

violation f (plural violations)

1. violation

English

Etymology 1

mis- +? conduct (noun sense)

Pronunciation

• (UK): enPR: m?s-k?n?d?kt, IPA^(key): /m?s?k?nd?kt/

Noun

misconduct (usually uncountable, plural misconducts)

1. behavior that is considered to be unacceptable.

   The student was threatened with a £2000 fine and banned from using the university's computing resources for two weeks due to gross misconduct on the Internet.

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Etymology 2

mis- +? conduct (verb sense)

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?s-k?n-d?kt?, IPA^(key): /m?sk?n?d?kt/

Verb

misconduct (third-person singular simple present misconducts, present participle misconducting, simple past and past participle misconducted)

1. (transitive) To mismanage. [from 18th c.]
2. (reflexive) To behave inappropriately, to misbehave. [from 19th c.]
   • 1958, Doris Lessing, A Ripple From the Storm, Harper Perennal 1995, p. 224:

     It had been pointed out […] that in the past enemy aliens misconducting themselves had been returned to the internment camp.

3. (intransitive, rare) To act improperly.

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