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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
infringe
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
infringe on/restrict sb's liberty (=limit someone's liberty)
▪ Will the new security measures infringe on our liberty?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
copyright
▪ It was held that the defendant had infringed copyright by copying the two-line moving cursor menu.
▪ A literal copy of a computer program infringes copyright if made without the consent of the copyright owner.
patent
▪ At about the time of the exhibition, it emerged that the firm was infringing the Medlock patent.
▪ D infringes the patent for the computer chips, regardless of knowledge.
▪ The Heinen letter claims' Latitude appears to specifically infringe Apple's patents and copyrights.
▪ It has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft stating that it has infringed two Stac patents.
right
▪ It gained the right from the emperor in 1116 to keep half the fine for infringing imperial rights.
▪ The action stems from a letter Apple sent Quorum lawyers on March 17 accusing it of infringing its intellectual property rights.
▪ It suggested that second marriages would substantially infringe the rights of inheritance of the members of the first family.
▪ Yet before we can even consider infringing the rights of people, we have to make strong moral justifications.
▪ It was made clear that the treaty did not infringe the rights and sovereignty of individual Soviet republics.
▪ He agreed the team had infringed the defendants' rights when they wrote a book on the case.
▪ The position may be clearer if the treaty infringes the legal rights of a third State.
▪ It infringes the rights of the individual.
sovereignty
▪ It was made clear that the treaty did not infringe the rights and sovereignty of individual Soviet republics.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Arrangements for widow's pensions infringed laws on equal pay and treatment.
▪ If a teacher makes copies of software for students, he or she is infringing copyright.
▪ The court ruled that he had infringed the company's patent.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Infringe

Infringe \In*fringe"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Infringed; p. pr. & vb. n. Infringing.] [L. infringere; pref. in- in + frangere to break. See Fraction, and cf. Infract .]

  1. To break; to violate; to transgress; to neglect to fulfill or obey; as, to infringe a law, right, or contract.

    If the first that did the edict infringe, Had answered for his deed.
    --Shak.

    The peace . . . was infringed by Appius Claudius.
    --Golding.

  2. To hinder; to destroy; as, to infringe efficacy; to infringe delight or power. [Obs.]
    --Hooker.

Infringe

Infringe \In*fringe"\, v. i.

  1. To break, violate, or transgress some contract, rule, or law; to injure; to offend.

  2. To encroach; to trespass; -- followed by on or upon; as, to infringe upon the rights of another.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
infringe

mid-15c., enfrangen, "to violate," from Latin infringere "to damage, break off, break, bruise," from in- "in" (see in- (2)) + frangere "to break" (see fraction). Meaning of "encroach" first recorded c.1760. Related: Infringed; infringing.

Wiktionary
infringe

vb. (context transitive English) Break or violate a treaty, a law, a right etc.

WordNet
infringe
  1. v. go against, as of rules and laws; "He ran afould of the law"; "This behavior conflicts with our rules" [syn: conflict, run afoul, contravene]

  2. advance beyond the usual limit [syn: encroach, impinge]

Usage examples of "infringe".

On hearing from the alcaide the cause of the affray, he acted with becoming dignity, ordering the guards from the room and directing that the renegade should be severely punished for daring to infringe the hospitality of the palace and insult an embassador.

The tax-collector was thus trying to hide the fright he had had, for a prefectorial order having prohibited duckhunting except in boats, Monsieur Binet, despite his respect for the laws, was infringing them, and so he every moment expected to see the rural guard turn up.

Monsieur Binet, despite his respect for the laws, was infringing them, and so he every moment expected to see the rural guard turn up.

With no basic patent to be infringed, it follows that anybody could build a Neol plant.

The defendants deny infringement but admit production and distribution of the alleged infringing motion picture entitled The Blood in the Red White and Blue.

Since I have not infringed the laws, his Catholic majesty must know that he has only one right over me, and that is to order me to leave his realms, which order I am ready to obey.

The ambassador did his best to make me send you way, but I told him that I had no power over you so long as you did not infringe the laws.

Pardon me if I have taken the liberty of infringing our agreement in this peculiar instance, but it is a question of keeping up some sort of appearance in public.

I heard the way they keep things copacetic with rival pushers is kickbacks from little Mickey Mouse independents that they tolerates, but no righteous organizations would ever try to infringe on the Southside, 'cause they knows the LAPD would come down hard just to keep them Armenian fucks happy.

Neither was infringing any laws: what Voss was up to - getting Parlabane to do hatchet jobs on his business rivals in his flagship Sunday broadsheet, Parlabane unaware of the fringe benefits of his expose's - was as legal as it was difficult to prove.

He would have taught it directly to the midwives, but they were even fussier about their guild privileges than the gunsmiths, who were still arguing whether or not bore-standardization for infantry muskets would infringe on their traditional rights!

Always on Fuerte, there had been the knowledge that people were close by, people were seeing, if not intently observing her, impinging on her consciousness, infringing on her desire to be alone and private.

If the cruel master had not infringed the laws of his nation, this arbitrary execution was not less unjust than it appears to have been imprudent.

This right shall not be infringed for any lawful citizen of the United States outside of the conditions stated in Section 1.

Sharp about the steps necessary for Tom to take in case Andy did attempt to enter a craft that infringed on the ideas of the young inventor, and on his way back he saw a newly-erected tent.