| 单词 | juvenile adult |
| 释义 | > as lemmasjuvenile adult juvenile adult n. a person below the legal age of responsibility and above a certain minimum age, who is held to be punishable for breaking the law (the term was discontinued by the Family Law Reform Act of 1969). ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > [noun] youngeOE younglingOE girlc1300 youtha1325 young onec1384 birdc1405 young person1438 young blood1557 primrosea1568 slip1582 juvenal1598 quat1607 airling1611 egga1616 saplinga1616 chita1657 a slip of a girla1660 juvenile1733 young adult1762 boots1806 snip1838 spring chicken1857 yob1859 kid1884 chiseller1922 juvenile adult1926 YA1974 yoof1986 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 8/1 In 1901..a ‘juvenile-adult reformatory’ was opened at Borstal, near Rochester, by the conversion of a part of the existing convict prison.] 1926 Encycl. Brit. I. 411/1 In 1894 two public inquiries into the administration of prisons and of Home Office schools arrived..at the same..conclusion, viz: ‘that the age 16–21 was the dangerous age; that we must concentrate on that; on the incipient criminal’ or, as he was officially christened, the juvenile adult. 1959 Earl Jowitt & C. Walsh Dict. Eng. Law II. 1041/1 Juvenile adult, a person not less than sixteen and not more than twenty-one. < as lemmas |
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