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What does arrestable mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word arrestable? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (law enforcement) Capable of, or suitable for, being arrested (taken into police custody).
  2. (law) For which one can be arrested (taken into police custody).
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Other measures put forward for public consultation include making common assault an arrestable offence and breaches of non-molestation orders a criminal offence.
This streaker has committed at least two arrestable offences by showing himself in public and running onto the pitch.
A person who lies frequently may be cut of the same mental fabric as the arrestable criminal.
Blair increased police powers by adding to the number of arrestable offences, compulsory DNA recording and the use of dispersal orders.
Breaching this injunction is an arrestable offence carrying up to 5 years in prison.
He pressed for legislation making it an arrestable offence to carry an imitation gun or air weapon in public.

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