indecent assault
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++inˌdecent asˈsault noun [countable, uncountable] law SCLSCCthe crime of making a sexual attack on someone, touching or threatening to touch them, but not raping them (=forcing them to have sex) 猥亵罪，猥亵侵犯他人身体
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indecent assault• Second, where right-minded observers would agree that the conduct was indecent, that would be an indecent assault.• A female can be charged with an indecent assault on another female.• Before he was jailed in 1995 for six years for indecent assault, Allen amassed a multimillion-dollar fortune.• It was held that there was no indecent assault.• Facts: convicted of attempted robbery: pleaded guilty to two further offences of robbery and one of indecent assault.• The Committee is thus opposed to any form of integration between the three offences of rape, indecent assault and buggery.• Garth was found guilty of violating a lawful general regulation, indecent assault and adultery, and using indecent language.• The Prince rule of strict liability as to age, which applies equally to indecent assault, has already been noticed.inˌdecent asˈsault nounChineseSyllable
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indecent assault
inˌdecent asˈsault
noun [uncountable and countable] law
the crime of making a sexual attack on someone, touching or threatening to touch them, but not RAPING them (=forcing them to have sex)
inˌdecent asˈsault
noun [uncountable and countable] lawthe crime of making a sexual attack on someone, touching or threatening to touch them, but not RAPING them (=forcing them to have sex)