Usually means: Harmful treatment towards minors, maltreatment.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word child abuse:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. child abuse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. child abuse: Collins English Dictionary
  3. child abuse: Vocabulary.com
  4. Child-Abuse, child-abuse: Wordnik
  5. child abuse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. child abuse: Wiktionary
  7. child abuse: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. child abuse: Dictionary.com
  9. Child Abuse (band), Child Abuse, Child abuse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. child abuse: Rhymezone
  11. child abuse: FreeDictionary.org
  12. child abuse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. child abuse: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. child abuse: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. child abuse: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Child Abuse: Legal dictionary
  4. child abuse: Financial dictionary
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. child abuse: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Abuse, child, Child abuse: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  6. child abuse: Medical dictionary
  7. Abuse, child, Child abuse: Drug Medical Dictionary
  8. Reactive Attachment Disorder (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (child abuse)

noun:  (criminology) Physical, sexual or emotional mistreatment of a child that causes long-term or permanent damage.

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