CRIMINAL POSSESSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does criminal possession mean? 

• CRIMINAL POSSESSION (noun)
  The noun CRIMINAL POSSESSION has 1 sense:

1. (law) possession for which criminal sanctions are provided because the property may not lawfully be possessed or may not be possessed under certain circumstances

  Familiarity information: CRIMINAL POSSESSION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRIMINAL POSSESSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(law) possession for which criminal sanctions are provided because the property may not lawfully be possessed or may not be possessed under certain circumstances

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("criminal possession" is a kind of...):

ownership; possession (the act of having and controlling property)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "criminal possession"):

illegal possession (possession of controlled substances)