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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
harassment
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
police brutality/harassment (=when the police hit or threaten people)
▪ He claims to have witnessed many instances of police brutality.
racial harassment (=threatening behaviour towards someone of another race)
▪ The court case increased public awareness of sexual and racial harassment in the workplace.
sexual harassment
subject sb to an ordeal/abuse/harassment
▪ Barker subjected his victim to awful abuse.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
racial
▪ The question of sexuality further complicates racialized encounters, such as racial harassment and violence.
▪ The report that documents their findings includes an appendix with 108 anecdotes by Princeton students of racial or religious harassment or discrimination.
▪ Is not it time to have a specific crime of racial harassment, as I proposed in my 1985 Racial Harassment Bill?
▪ Mobilization became more difficult but community-based resistance against police violence, racial harassment, and other problems continued.
▪ A lot of racial abuse and harassment goes on.
▪ His family said he had been subjected to a campaign of racial harassment and death threats.
▪ Instances of police racial harassment which had always happened to other people, were now happening to us.
▪ Only society itself can make the fundamental change that is required to make racial harassment a part of history.
■ VERB
complain
▪ Widows living alone were not the only interviewees to complain of harassment by drunken foreign sailors.
▪ Young people and ethnic minorities have repeatedly complained about police harassment.
▪ Some disenfranchised minority voters also complain of police harassment.
▪ Surely the time for action is when some one complains of harassment.
report
▪ That was more than the 324 reported incidents of anti-gay harassment and violence.
subject
▪ No one should be subjected to verbal harassment, just as no one should be threatened with physical violence.
suffer
▪ They have also suffered much officially approved harassment.
▪ Other female officers have testified that they also suffered harassment in the department.
▪ Both communities suffer continual harassment from a blatantly racist police force, they face discrimination in courts and in prison.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Other female officers have testified that they also suffered harassment in the department.
▪ Passive harassment became more and more active.
▪ Some do this for fun; some, to avoid harassment.
▪ The company has acknowledged that some incidents of harassment occurred, but denies allegations that it was widely tolerated.
▪ The controversial law will also bar hate speech and harassment.
▪ There were complaints by black youths of police harassment, the sus laws merely being used as an excuse for this.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Harassment

Harassment \Har"ass*ment\ (-ment), n. The act of harassing, or state of being harassed; worry; annoyance; anxiety.

Little harassments which I am led to suspect do occasionally molest the most fortunate.
--Ld. Lytton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
harassment

1753, from harass + -ment.

Wiktionary
harassment

n. 1 Persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress. 2 Deliberate pestering or annoying.

WordNet
harassment
  1. n. a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented; "so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors" [syn: torment]

  2. the act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism [syn: molestation]

Wikipedia
Harassment

Harassment ( or ) covers a wide range of behaviours of an offensive nature. It is commonly understood as behaviour which disturbs or upsets, and it is characteristically repetitive. In the legal sense, it is behaviour which appears to be disturbing or threatening. Sexual harassment refers to persistent and unwanted sexual advances, typically in the workplace, where the consequences of refusing are potentially very disadvantageous to the victim.

Usage examples of "harassment".

Land forces battered their way through guerilla harassment and started to bring their weight to bear on the Santander blocking elements.

No official records existed of Wolfgang Kies, which meant I was free of harassment by the city unless I attracted their attention.

Life at the academy did not become easier for our portly friend, for despite drilling and the marching of his numerous demerits he grew no leaner, though he did seem to become both stronger and gain more endurance, both for physical exercise and the routine harassment that came with his girth.

After the destruction of the Lossen, the remainder of the Danish fleet withdrew to the west, under continued harassment by the remaining U.

However, I knew the harassment of Gloria Neames was only the first shot of the war.

To demand that Farrow or Tilth cease executing people for the Wit is like demanding that Shoaks cease all harassment along their border with Chalced.

The thrust of CCD policy, however, was to weaken socialist, communist, and Marxist influence by example, through the harassment and vetting of the most influential and prestigious purveyors of such views.

That concerns me because it furnishes you the ability to force war between my nation and yours, by making me subject in Britain to endless harassment!

The harassment was so severe that his accuser, Anita Hill, continued working for Thomas for years, followed him to other jobs, exchanged friendly correspondence with him, and kept the story of her brutal victimization a secret for the next, oh, decade or so.

The article went on to recount the sexual harassment brouhaha of the previous fall, which had not involved her at all but had made life at headquarters unpleasant for everyone for a month or two.

The Iraqis continued to look for ways to hamstring the inspectors, but their obstructionism and harassment were more an annoyance than an impediment.

It was one thing to go to him with a clear-cut case of obstructionism, but harassment was a harder thing to prove.

This was quite a feat since Ventura had taken the opportunity of an interview with a pornographic magazine to commit liberal heresy on the subject of sexual harassment.

Ted and his partner, Neal, had been the targets of a series of antigay harassments that the entire agency had worked to bring to a halt, but the homophobe who had perpetrated them was firmly ensconced in prison.

It was an era of international and interregional political tensions and harassment, and military, technological and industrial sabotage and espionage.