The Collaborative International Dictionary
Breach \Breach\ (br[=e]ch), n. [OE. breke, breche, AS. brice, gebrice, gebrece (in comp.), fr. brecan to break; akin to Dan. br[ae]k, MHG. breche, gap, breach. See Break, and cf. Brake (the instrument), Brack a break] .
The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise.
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A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture.
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead.
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A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
The Lord hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters.
--2 Sam. v. 20.A clear breach implies that the waves roll over the vessel without breaking.
A clean breach implies that everything on deck is swept away.
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A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.
There's fallen between him and my lord An unkind breach.
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A bruise; a wound.
Breach for breach, eye for eye.
--Lev. xxiv. 20. (Med.) A hernia; a rupture.
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A breaking out upon; an assault.
The Lord had made a breach upon Uzza.
--1. Chron. xiii. 11.Breach of falth, a breaking, or a failure to keep, an expressed or implied promise; a betrayal of confidence or trust.
Breach of peace, disorderly conduct, disturbing the public peace.
Breach of privilege, an act or default in violation of the privilege or either house of Parliament, of Congress, or of a State legislature, as, for instance, by false swearing before a committee.
--Mozley. Abbott.Breach of promise, violation of one's plighted word, esp. of a promise to marry.
Breach of trust, violation of one's duty or faith in a matter entrusted to one.
Syn: Rent; cleft; chasm; rift; aperture; gap; break; disruption; fracture; rupture; infraction; infringement; violation; quarrel; dispute; contention; difference; misunderstanding.
WordNet
n. violation (either through fraud or negligence) by a trustee of a duty that equity requires of him
Wikipedia
Breach of trust is a type of civil wrong.
Breach of trust may also refer to:
- Breach of fiduciary responsibility
- Breach of Trust, a Canadian band
- A Secret Life (film), a 1999 American made-for-TV film released in Britain as Breach of Trust
- Abuso de confianza (English title: Breach of Trust), a 1950 Argentine film
- Breach of Trust, a storyline in the comic book Stormwatch: Post Human Division
- Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders, a book by U.S. Senator Tom Coburn
- Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country, a book by Andrew Bacevich
Usage examples of "breach of trust".
It was hard to do: the boy was not yet five and it felt like a breach of trust, yet he was convinced now of the necessity.
Another resolution was passed a few days afterwards, to the effect that several of the directors and officers of the Company having, in a clandestine manner, sold their own stock to the Company, had been guilty of a notorious fraud and breach of trust, and had thereby mainly caused the unhappy turn of affairs that had so much affected public credit.
I think Andais would see your demand that one of your men fuck me as a grave breach of trust.
Not only would it be regarded as a hellishly ungrateful breach of trust, but it wouldn't have done a fuck of a lot for Anglo~Amen can relations.
I was faced with a deep breach of trust and faith and also with the fact that he knew far too much of the darker side of necromancy to be allowed simply to go.
In return to which, Conscience, like a good lawyer, attempted to distinguish between an absolute breach of trust, as here, where the goods were delivered, and a bare concealment of what was found, as in the former case.