Big Brother vocabulary

happening or coming soon

• forthcoming

• charged

• slammed

bad effects that something has

• repercussions

• nuisances

• summons

dropping rubbish such as food wrappers

• littering

• slamming

• careering

to make a complaint in a formal way

• to lodge a complaint

• to slam a complaint

• to issue a complaint

the time that someone will have to spend in prison only if they commit another crime within a fixed period

• heavy sentence

• suspended sentence

• forthcoming sentence

to continue in a determined or unreasonable way

• to persist

• to violate

• to fade

an official warning about disobedience or failure to cooperate

• coverage notice

• infringement notice

• a matter of principle

to do something that is in opposition to a law, agreement, principle or rule

• to charge

• to sentence

• to violate

something that is annoying

• a strata

• a novelty

• a nuisance

to do something that a law or rule does not allow

• to prosecute

• to contravene

• to judge