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breach English

Meaning breach meaning

What does breach mean?
Definitions in simple English

breach Verb

— If you breach a duty, you do something that you should not do. — If an army or the police breach a barrier, a wall, etc., they were not able to enter it before but now they can. The police breached the front door and searched the house.

breach Noun

— A breach is the act of breaching; for example, a breach of contract may occur when somebody does not do what they promised. — A breach can also be a hole. Water entered through a breach in the levee.

breach

— noun a failure to perform some promised act or obligation — verb (= gap) make an opening or gap in — verb (= offend, violate, break) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises offend all laws of humanity violate the basic laws or human civilization break a law break a promise — noun an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification) — noun (= break) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) they hoped to avoid a break in relations

Synonyms breach synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as breach?

breach English » English

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Topics breach topics

What do people use breach to talk about?
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Conjugation breach conjugation

How do you conjugate breach?

breach · verb

Examples breach examples

How do I use breach in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom got fired from his work for serious breach of discipline.
It is a custom more honored in the breach than the observance.
Mr Smith is accused of breach of contract.
If you do that, I'll sue you for breach of contract!

Movie subtitles

You were in breach of your supervisory directive.
There's a breach in the outer wall.
The smugglers are at the breach.
Rumors? Since when is a breach-of-promise case a rumor?
No breach-of-promise case has been filed.
I won't have it! It's a breach of faith.
This trick is going to cost Madame a suit for breach of contract.
If you can hold a breach like you held that bridge.
Breach secured.
Now, for a singer to deliberately absent herself from the stage during a performance is a gross breach of. Oh.
Once more.unto the breach, dear friends, once more, or close the wall up with our English dead.
On, on! To the breach!
God's plud! Up to the breach, you dogs!
Ay, the trumpet call us into the breach and we talk and, by the Holy, do nothing!
The killer is here. A weak verdict on your part would mean a breach in the ramparts built to protect our society.
Since when is a breach-of-promise case a rumour?
You're facing a breach of promise suit!
You shall. If you can hold a breach like you held that bridge, you're one of us. Welcome.
I don't want to suggest any breach of confidence but does it happen to be anyone I know?
Now, for a singer to deliberately absent herself from the stage during a performance is a gross breach of.
Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more.
And his gash'd stabs look'd like a breach in nature for ruin's wasteful entrance.
Uriah advanced too far into the breach and was cut off from his command.
We have the plans for fortifications the devil himself couldn't breach. solid steel and concrete from Denmark to Spain. but I'm afraid our French friends aren't being as cooperative as they might be.
Five Panzer Divisions and nine Infantry Divisions of von Rundstedt's army are pouring into the wide breach.
You shall. If you can hold a breach like you held that bridge.. you're one of us.
The town is beseeched, and the trumpet call us to the breach; and we talk, and, by the Holy, do nothing.
Every great castle needs a breach.
And so, I think, in all. Yet, since it is but green. it should be put to no apparent likelihood of breach. which haply by much company might be urged.
Do you think it can breach the wall?
I think they can make a breach in the wall.
I am obliged to point out, Major, that if you sack this man, the company is in breach of its agreement with the union.
Now, this is the first time that this has been mooted to the works committee, And everything about it constitutes quite definitely, quite definitely. a definite breach of the existing agreements that exist between management and unions.
Other people take the view that the living standards of the workers have been viciously attacked by the employers, who in any case are in breach of contract.
The national interest does not fit with breach of trust.

News and current affairs

This was also a novelty: torture does not appear as a breach of a common standard, unfortunate but justifiable.
Mindful that normal slowdowns could lead to a breach of the ceiling, they decreed that a normal deficit is a zero deficit.
Moreover, airstrikes in Syria without the government's consent or Security Council authorization will be manifestly in breach of the United Nations Charter.
Hearts and minds matter in counterterrorism, and they become harder to win whenever the US and its supporters embark upon military action clearly in breach of international law.
And one can easily understand civil servants' strong reluctance to disregard legal obligations and risk criminal liability for breach of trust.
That arrangement was proposed by then-ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet, in clear breach of the Maastricht Treaty's no-bailout rule, which had been Germany's fundamental condition for giving up the Deutschmark.
The offence has caused a breach in relations and this breach needs to be healed.
Obama's breach of Europe's intellectual insularity is all the more remarkable because even the International Monetary Fund has acquiesced in German-imposed orthodoxy.
Contracts are being respected only in the breach, and technicians and lawyers from PDVESA, the Venezuelan oil giant, are auditing Petrobras installations in Bolivia.
The Turks will not let Cypriot ships into their harbors and have not been on speaking terms with the Israelis since nine Turkish citizens were killed on a ship that sought to breach Israel's blockade of Gaza.
Using chemical weapons is indeed a breach of international conventions, including the Chemical Weapons Convention, which Syria has never signed, and the Geneva Protocol, to which it is a party.
Moreover, Saudi Arabia's breach with Hezbollah is not a one-time occurrence.
Second, as long as a serious breach of international law is not detected, negotiations with Iran must continue.
Publishers and authors disagreed, and some sued Google for breach of copyright, eventually agreeing to settle their claim in exchange for a share of Google's revenue.
Though Pakistan has not experienced a nuclear breach, and the government insists that safeguards remain robust, the country's increasingly frequent and severe bouts of instability raise serious questions about the future.
How will Chile breach this wall?
Unlike many Latin American and former Soviet-bloc countries, where similar controls are honored mainly in the breach, violating capital controls in China is virtually a capital offense.
The targets also can face Trojan-horse attacks by e-mail intended to breach their computers and allow the infiltrators to corrupt or transfer files remotely.
In such an atmosphere, inclusion of politically incorrect content is not merely a risky move, but constitutes a breach of social decorum.
Nearly all of these principles are, today at least, honored more in the breach than in the observance.
In Germany, many consider the EFSF a breach of the fundamental principle that EU governments cannot be bailed-out by their partners.
Once in obvious breach of the NPT, universal participation in a much tougher sanctions regime is seen in Iran as inevitable.
They produce skin-deep democracies in which people have a vote but don't really have a stake, in which wealth is increasingly concentrated and income disparities are harder to breach.
It sets high store by healing. The offence has caused a breach in relations and this breach needs to be healed.

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