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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
homicide
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
culpable homicide/negligence etc
▪ He pleaded guilty to culpable homicide.
justifiable homicide
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
culpable
▪ Sutherland has denied the culpable homicide of Mr Buckley.
▪ Yesterday, the Crown accepted a guilty plea to the reduced charge of culpable homicide.
■ NOUN
case
▪ But when you've handled a number of homicide cases you learn to recognize a pattern.
▪ What, then, should be the proper division of functions between judge and jury in homicide cases?
▪ The jury would have no role in most homicide cases, since a plea of guilty would be the norm.
detective
▪ So is Joe Mantegna, as the homicide detective assigned to the case, telling her to let the law handle it.
▪ We hung out with a homicide detective, and we tried to make it realistic.
▪ Malcolm Ainslie is a disillusioned Catholic priest turned unfaithful husband and crack Miami homicide detective.
rate
▪ The homicide rate is 66 deaths per 100,000, among the world's highest.
▪ The homicide rate continued to rise until it was triple even that of the United States.
▪ But in Youngstown, the homicide rate went down.
▪ Nisbett and Cohen say they did not include blacks in their study because homicide rates for blacks are unrelated to region.
▪ The same trend is reflected in national statistics, which show homicide rates rising fastest among those 15 to 19 years old.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ 70 per cent of homicides take place within the family.
▪ A newspaper article criticized his handling of a homicide case
▪ As yet no evidence has been found to suggest that this death was homicide.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But in Youngstown, the homicide rate went down.
▪ But this was not a circumstance of homicide.
▪ In proportion to their numbers young ghetto males commit seven times more homicides and 30 percent more suicides than young white males.
▪ Less than one percent of homicides recorded nationwide last year fell into this category, McCrary said.
▪ Like no other manner of death, homicide leaves survivors feeling profoundly violated.
▪ The three middle chapters each consider individual crimes: cattle stealing, homicide and riot.
▪ They've got a homicide at Royal Oak.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Homicide

Homicide \Hom"i*cide\, n. [F., fr. L. homicidium, fr. homicida a man slayer; homo man + caedere to cut, kill. See Homage, and cf. Concise, Shed, v. t.]

  1. The killing of one human being by another.

    Note: Homicide is of three kinds: justifiable, as when the killing is performed in the exercise of a right or performance of a duty; excusable, as when done, although not as duty or right, yet without culpable or criminal intent; and felonious, or involving what the law terms malice; the latter may be either manslaughter or murder.
    --Bouvier.

  2. One who kills another; a manslayer.
    --Chaucer. Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
homicide

"the killing of another person," early 13c., from Old French homicide, from Latin homicidium "manslaughter," from homo "man" (see homunculus) + -cidium "act of killing" (see -cide). The meaning "person who kills another" (late 14c.) also is from French, from Latin homicida "a murderer," from -cida "killer."

Wiktionary
homicide

n. 1 (context uncountable English) The killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional. 2 (context countable English) A person who kills another. 3 (context countable US police jargon English) A victim of homicide; a person who has been unlawfully killed by someone else.

WordNet
homicide

n. the killing of a human being by another human being

Wikipedia
Homicide

Homicide occurs when one person causes the death of one other person. Homicides can be divided into many overlapping types, including murder, manslaughter, justifiable homicide, killing in war, euthanasia, and execution, depending on the circumstances of the death. These different types of homicides are often treated very differently in human societies; some are considered crimes, while others are permitted or even ordered by the legal system.

Homicide (1991 film)

Homicide is a crime- drama film written and directed by David Mamet, and released in 1991. The film's cast includes Joe Mantegna, William H. Macy, and Ving Rhames. It was entered in the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.

Homicide (Australian TV series)

Homicide (1964-1977) was an Australian television police procedural drama series made by production firm Crawford Productions for the Seven Network. It was the television successor to Crawfords' radio series D24.

Homicide (disambiguation)

Homicide is the act of killing of another human.

Homicide may also refer to:

Homicide (1949 film)

Homicide is a 1949 American comedy film directed by Felix Jacoves and written by William Sackheim. The film stars Robert Douglas, Helen Westcott, Robert Alda, Monte Blue, Warren Douglas and John Harmon. The film was released by Warner Bros. on April 2, 1949.

Homicide (wrestler)

Nelson Rodriguez Erazo(born March 20, 1977) is an American professional wrestler of Puerto Rican descent, better known by his ring name, Homicide, known for his time in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he is a one-time X Division Champion and three-time World Tag Team Champion, having won the NWA World Tag Team Championship twice and the TNA World Tag Team Championship once with partner Hernandez. He is also known from his time in Ring of Honor, where he held the World Championship once, as well as Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), where he is a one-time World Tag Team Champion and winner of the Tango & Cash Invitational tournament alongside B-Boy, and Jersey All Pro Wrestling (JAPW), where he has held both the Heavyweight Championship and the Tag Team Championship seven times each.

Usage examples of "homicide".

The danger of frequent perjury might justify the pronouncing against a false accuser the same penalty which his evidence would have inflicted: the disorders of the times might compel the legislator to punish every homicide with death, and every injury with equal retaliation.

Quickly apprehending a perpetrator of a violent crime-rape, homicide, child abduction-is a major goal of all law enforcement agencies.

Homicide number three was the three-year-old stabbing of a twenty-five-year-old ballet dancer named Angelique Bernet in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

I searched for Baltimore homicides on the net but came up with nothing remotely similiar to Angelique Bernet or the other killings.

The Brame homicide looked as if it would get the full-scale investigation that the Americans would expect.

Homicide had managed to figure out that Lester Keith Brassard was an importer of more than cigarette lighters.

Inspector Wilson Britch did his best to be businesslike as they entered his aquariumlike office in the middle of the homicide room.

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City By Lorenzo Carcaterra Back Cover: Giancarlo Lo Manto is the toughest cop on the toughest beat in Europe a detective in the Naples homicide squad, dedicated to bringing down the mob.

Lo Manto had experienced a lifetime of these situations during his seventeen years on the Naples police force, the last eight working perhaps the most dangerous beat in all of Europe, the homicide division.

NOT, consume candy bars or any other sweets, nourishments, condiments, or beverages at homicide scenes, since television reportage of the above-said masticatory acts tends to promote an image of departmental insensitivity toward the deceased.

From the other table advances Tommy Molto, the Homicide supervisor, who has elected to try this case, a rarity for him these 68 THE LAWS OF OUR FATHERS days.

Wherefore I pray you most venerable Fathers, to whom and every one of whom it doth appertain, to provide for the dignity and safety of the Commonweale, that you would in no wise suffer this wicked Homicide, embrued with the bloud of so many murthered citisens, to escape unpunished.

Cane, has declined to comment on whether any suspects have been identified or any aspects of the investigation, apart from confirming the identity of the victim and that the death has been classified preliminarily as a homicide and is being investigated as such.

The correct classification assists in profiling and directs the investigation as serial homicides.