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de·lin·quen·cy
 delinquency
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- pronunciation:
- d
lIng
kwn
si
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
noun |
| inflections: |
delinquencies |
| definition 1: |
failure to bear one's responsibilities; dereliction of duty or failure to meet a legal requirement.
- similar words:
- default
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| definition 2: |
a misdeed or offense.
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| definition 3: |
see "juvenile delinquency."
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| related words: |
iniquity |
adjective + (n.)delinquency
academic,
adolescent,
anti-social,
chronic,
delinquent,
early,
female,
increased,
involved,
juvenile,
later,
leading,
low,
mainstream,
male,
mild,
moral,
negative,
overall,
previous,
prior,
psychological,
psychosocial,
serious,
severe,
standardized,
teenage,
urban
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verb + (n.)delinquency
associate, contribute, curb, derive, display, drift, dropout, engage, influence, link, neglect, predict, prevent, promote, reduce, refrain, relate
(n.)delinquency
+ verb
assess, peak, persist, rise
noun + (n.)delinquency
abuse,
aggression,
alcohol,
arrest,
basis,
bonding,
card,
conduct,
correlate,
council,
credit,
crime,
debt,
dependency,
development,
disorder,
dropout,
explanation,
factor,
failure,
finding,
frequency,
girl,
incidence,
indicator,
involvement,
loan,
measure,
mortgage,
onset,
percentage,
personality,
prediction,
predictor,
pregnancy,
probability,
problem,
proceeding,
rejection,
rise,
risk,
school,
severity,
sex,
socialization,
truancy,
variance,
welfare,
youngster,
youth
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The word delinquency
contains the following part:
-ance, -ence, -ency, -ancy
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means state, quality, or act of
  More about this word part:
The suffix group -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
attaches to verbs and Latin verb stems to create nouns. The suffix -ance
is usually attached to whole English words, whereas -ence
is usually attached to roots: compare eloquence
and acceptance
. For most nouns ending in -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
, there is a correponsponding adjective form ending in -ant, -ent.
Example words:
absence, acceptance, accountancy, admittance, agency, ambiance, ambience, appetency, arrogance, ascendancy, attendance, audience, belligerency, benevolence, brilliancy, buoyancy, cadence, clemency, complacency, conference, confidence, consequence, conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, contingency, counterinsurgency, countertendency, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, difference, disappearance, discrepancy, disturbance, efficiency, eloquence, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, importance, incoherency, inconsistency, incumbency, indecency, independence, independency, inefficiency, infancy, insufficiency, insurgency, interagency, interdependency, itinerancy, latency, leniency, malfeasance, malignancy, mendicancy, nonbelligerency, nonemergency, occupancy, occurrence, patency, permanency, piquancy, poignancy, potency, preference, pregnancy, presidency, proficiency, pungency, redundancy, regency, remembrance, residence, residency, science, solvency, stringency, subagency, sufficiency, superefficiency, superintendency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy
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