IRREGULARITY

[noun]Irregularities are things which are not correct or acceptable.The inspectors found several irregularities in the business accounts. [C]The bank was fined for currency irregularities. [C]Christopher was called back from a vacation in France after the irregularities were discovered and was suspended as branch manager. [C]It was one among many minor electoral irregularities reported by opposition parties. [C]"We detected what appeared to be an irregularity," said a lawyer for the laboratory. [C]The irregularity of (= The lack of rules for) English spelling means that it is easy to make mistakes. [U]