Definition of "contravening" [contravening]

• Present participle of contravene. (to act contrary or to deny something.) (verb)

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• "What it did: Let councils enforce (and keep income from) parking and moving traffic offences such as contravening banned turns and blocking box junctions."
• "Again, I am not trying to advocate the practice, but in truth the FBI is not "contravening" anything because they are quite simply not subject to the laws of the European Union."
• "China subsidizes contravening its own WTO treaties its industries in ways ranging from cheap credit to free land."