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infringe Definition

in·fringe (in frinj)

transitive verb -·fringed, -·fring·ing

to break (a law or agreement); fail to observe the terms of; violate

Etymology: L infringere, to break off, break, impair, violate < in-, in + frangere, to break

infringe Related Forms
in·fringe·ment noun
infringe Idioms

infringe on

or infringe upon

to break in on; encroach or trespass on to infringe upon their right to privacy

infringe Synonyms

infringe

v.

transgress, violate, trespass, encroach; see meddle 1, transgress. See syn. study at trespass.

infringe Usage Examples

Object

  • copyright: The making of this copy will not infringe the copyright in the content.
  • patent: She also describes how a designer may take action should anyone infringe the patent.
  • prohibition: The Director General has today made a decision that the revised conditions do not infringe the Chapter I prohibition.
  • liberty: Coercive measures, which infringe civil liberties, are incompatible with maternity care.
  • right: The legal right infringed can be a private right or a public right ie the right to travel along a highway.
  • copy: The New Law explicitly prohibits the use of infringing copy of computer programs for business purposes.

Preposition: on

  • right: Moreover, how do you detect such abuse without infringing on the legal rights of an individual to personal privacy?
  • copyright: I will not suffer these interruptions while I'm infringing on copyright!
  • trademark: The name cannot infringe on a trademark or service mark.
  • liberty: If he assaults someone then he is overstepping his rights by infringing on the liberty of another.

Subject

  • person: Those rights are infringed by a person who does, or authorizes the doing, of any of those acts.

Modifying Another Word

  • unwarrantably: It therefore finds that the family's privacy was not unwarrantably infringed in the program as broadcast.
  • otherwise: A performer or someone acting on his or her behalf can however consent to any act that would otherwise infringe his or her rights.
  • potentially: Of course it is the local authority who will ultimately decide on planning permission for any structure that will potentially infringe the aerodrome airspace.
  • not: The Notebook Guardian does not infringe upon Kensington's patent.
  • seriously: Those who seriously infringed their Buddhist vows during the Cultural Revolution are not even allowed to stay ( p. 65 ).
  • directly: Perhaps one could boldly suggest that an SEP could not directly infringe a third party's trade mark.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • upon: Policeman infringes upon ' human rights ' of local Youth!

Preposition: by

  • person: Those rights are infringed by a person who does, or authorizes the doing, of any of those acts.

Preposition: upon

  • right: Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other 25.