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Meaning of "acquaintance violence" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ACQUAINTANCE VIOLENCE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ACQUAINTANCE VIOLENCE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Acquaintance violence is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ACQUAINTANCE VIOLENCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of acquaintance violence in the English dictionary

The definition of acquaintance violence in the dictionary is impulsive aggressive behaviour towards someone with whom the attacker has been in contact.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ACQUAINTANCE VIOLENCE

acquaint
acquaintance
acquaintance rape
acquaintanceship
acquainted
acquest
acquiesce
acquiescence
acquiescent
acquiescently
acquight
acquirability
acquirable
acquire
acquired
acquired behaviour
acquired characteristic
acquired drive
acquired immune deficiency syndrome
acquired immunity

WORDS THAT END LIKE ACQUAINTANCE VIOLENCE

ambivalence
at your convenience
benevolence
condolence
domestic violence
equivalence
excellence
flatulence
opulence
par excellence
pestilence
polyvalence
prevalence
radio silence
silence
somnolence
turbulence
ultraviolence
valence
violence
virulence

Synonyms and antonyms of acquaintance violence in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «acquaintance violence» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ACQUAINTANCE VIOLENCE

Find out the translation of acquaintance violence to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of acquaintance violence from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «acquaintance violence» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

熟人暴力
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

violencia conocido
570 millions of speakers

English

acquaintance violence
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

परिचित हिंसा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

العنف التعارف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

знакомство насилие
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

violência conhecimento
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পরিচিতি সহিংসতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

violence connaissance
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Keganasan kenalan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Bekanntschaft Gewalt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

知人の暴力
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

지인 폭력
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kekerasan kenalan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bạo lực quen
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அறிமுகம் வன்முறை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

परिचित हिंसा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Tanıdık şiddet
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

violenza conoscente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przemoc znajomy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

знайомство насильство
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

violență cunoștință
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Η γνωριμία της βίας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bekendes geweld
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bekantskap våld
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bekjent vold
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of acquaintance violence

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ACQUAINTANCE VIOLENCE»

The term «acquaintance violence» is barely ever used and occupies the 204.652 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of acquaintance violence
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ACQUAINTANCE VIOLENCE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «acquaintance violence» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «acquaintance violence» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about acquaintance violence

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ACQUAINTANCE VIOLENCE»

Discover the use of acquaintance violence in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to acquaintance violence and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Law, Power, and Justice in England and Wales
This compares with the reporting of less than one-third of incidents of domestic violence and about one-quarter of acts of stranger and acquaintance violence. Victims believed that drink was a factor in 17% of muggings and drugs a factor in  ...
Ian K. McKenzie, 1998
2
International Perspectives on Violence
Acquaintance violence rose by 89 percent, and domestic violence by 187 percent during the period from 1981 to 1997. Stranger violence, however, fell by a fifth (- 19%). Mugging, which nearly always involved strangers, rose by 55 percent ...
Florence Denmark, Leonore Loeb Adler, 2004
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Solving Violence Problems in Your School: Why a Systematic ...
The most common form of violence in the school setting is acquaintance violence — incidents that happen between people who know each other (usually friends or classmates). An all too frequent form of acquaintance violence is the type that ...
Carole Remboldt, 1994
4
Family Violence and Men of Color: Healing the Wounded Male ...
In fact, scholars who explore theories of African American men and maladaptive behaviors select this group because of their high rates of suicide, homicide, and acquaintance violence rather than their involvement with partner violence.
Ricardo Carrillo, PhD PhD, Jerry Tello MS, 2008
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Textbook on Criminology
But in acquaintance violence other high-risk factors, for both men and women, were: being unmarried; having children under 12; and living in an area where the rate of incivilities was high. The nature of the risk varies for men and women.
Katherine S. Williams, 2012
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HIV/AIDS, Gender, Human Security and Violence in Southern Africa
According to a paper compiled by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation,13 acquaintance violence (aggressive behaviour towards someone familiar), is closely linked to and a large contributing factor in other assault charges, ...
Monica Kathina Juma, Jennifer Klot, 2011
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Confronting Chronic Neglect:: The Education and Training of ...
... needs of health professionals with respect to the detection and referral of victims of family and acquaintance violence, including child physical abuse and sexual abuse and neglect, intimate partner violence, and elder abuse and neglect.
Committee on the Training Needs of Health Professionals to Respond to Family Violence, Marla E. Salmon, John D. Stobo, 2002
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Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice: How We Can Stop Girls' ...
The significant attention given to stranger violence, which often overshadows efforts to address family, friend, and acquaintance violence. Girls and women are most likely to be victims and perpetrators in settings where they know the others ...
Deborah Prothrow-Stith, Howard R. Spivak, 2005
9
Crime Reduction Problem-oriented Policing
Itcaninclude violencebetween immediate familymembers, both intergenerational and intimates (domesticviolence); violencebetween individuals known toeach other (acquaintance violence); and violence between people unknown to each ...
Karen Bullock, Nick Tilley, 2012
10
The Handbook of Community Safety Gender and Violence ...
If the victim(s) and offender(s) know one another, this violence is sometimes called acquaintance violence, and if they do not, it is called stranger violence. Community violence includes much of what is sometimes called youth violence, where ...
Carolyn Whitzman, 2012

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ACQUAINTANCE VIOLENCE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term acquaintance violence is used in the context of the following news items.
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The mugging map: Website allows victims to pinpoint exactly where …
... which it said does not distinguish stranger attacks from domestic or acquaintance violence, therefore making people 'assume the risk to them ... «Daily Mail, Feb 12»
2
Website lets London street violence victims report crimes online
... Home Office crime-mapping website www.police.uk which does not distinguish stranger attacks from domestic or acquaintance violence and ... «BBC News, Feb 12»
3
Legal advice centre opens to tackle Hackney street violence
... and 12,244 violent offences were reported to the police (for the year 2008-9, and including offences of domestic and acquaintance violence). «Hackney Citizen, Oct 10»
4
Drugs, alcohol and tempers prove volatile, deadly mix
"Family and acquaintance violence is typically greased by something like alcohol and (illegal) substance use," said Doug King, chair of the ... «Calgary Herald, Feb 08»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Acquaintance violence [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/acquaintance-violence>. May 2024 ».
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