vagrancy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++va·gran·cy /ˈveɪɡrənsi/ noun [uncountable] SCCHOMEthe criminal offence of living on the street and begging (beg) from people 流浪罪
Examples from the Corpus
vagrancy• You will not jeopardise that job I perjured myself to get for you by a vagrancy charge tonight of all nights.• He also frisked drunks and got himself arrested on a vagrancy charge.• The place where even the barest sketch of family life ended and vagrancy began.• The growing numbers of the poor were reflected in begging, vagrancy and theft, all of which led to repressive reactions.• Arrested for vagrancy, he dried out in hospital, where molested the nurse.• Henry Fielding in 1751 saw the matter from the perspective of a London magistrate, linking vagrancy to crime.va·gran·cy nounChineseSyllable
the on Corpus of criminal the offence living
vagrancy
va‧gran‧cy /ˈveɪɡrənsi/
noun [uncountable]
the criminal offence of living on the street and begging from people
va‧gran‧cy /ˈveɪɡrənsi/
noun [uncountable]the criminal offence of living on the street and begging from people