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CRIMINAL POSSESSION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(law) possession for which criminal sanctions are provided because the property may not lawfully be possessed or may not be possessed under certain circumstances
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("criminal possession" is a kind of...):
ownership; possession (the act of having and controlling property)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "criminal possession"):
illegal possession (possession of controlled substances)
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