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home invasion, n.
Brit. |ˈhəʊm ɪnˌveɪʒn|, U.S. |ˈhoʊm ɪnˌveɪʒ(ə)n|
[‹ home n.1 + invasion n. Compare earlier home invader n.]
1. Invasion of one's home nation by a foreign force. Now rare.
1852U.S. Democratic Rev. Apr. 293/1 America..provokes and permits home invasion, refrains to make war on hostile despots.., and ingloriously abstains from taking..her rightful position among the nations. 1890N.Y. Times 18 July 1/3 Guatemala..has two objects in view, namely, to protect herself from home invasions and to strengthen her credit abroad. 1917N.Y. Times 9 Aug. 6/4, I do not believe in sending our youths to the trenches of Europe..instead of providing an adequate army to prevent home invasion.
2. Chiefly N. Amer., Austral., and N.Z. (orig. U.S.). An act of entering a private dwelling while it is occupied, with the intention of committing a crime (usually burglary, often while threatening the resident); the action or offence of doing this.
In the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, home invasion is a legally defined offence.Entry need not be forced, and may even be under invitation, if the offender later remains on the premises when requested by the resident to leave.
1973Chicago Sun-Times 2 Nov. 26/1 Wilmette police were seeking the robbers in an apparently unrelated home invasion that occurred early Thursday. 1988S. Paretsky Blood Shot xxix. 214 The steel-lined door I'd had installed after my last home invasion had held. 1995Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 23 June 12/6 Police are investigating a home invasion in which three people wearing balaclavas and armed with pieces of wood overpowered a man in his Townsville house at 11pm last night. 2001Calgary Sun (Electronic ed.) 5 June ‘We noticed items in the room that led us to believe the occupants of the room were involved in the home invasion.’ Street and Cain placed the two males under arrest for robbery and then read them their rights. |