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Definition of Riot Act in English: Riot Actproper noun An Act passed by the British government in 1715 and repealed in 1967, designed to prevent civil disorder. The Act made it a felony for an assembly of more than twelve people to refuse to disperse after being ordered to do so and having been read a specified section of the Act by lawful authority. 取缔闹事法（英国政府1715年通过，1967年废除的一项法令，旨在防止国内动乱；该法规定12人以上的集会若接到解散命令，并由法律机关宣读此令的某一部分后仍拒不从命者犯重罪）
Phrasesread someone the Riot Act Give someone a severe warning or reprimand. he read the riot act to his players after hauling them in for extra training Example sentencesExamples - The upshot was that the Mayor read the Riot Act and the they postponed their get-together until the following month.
- ‘Michael has a reputation for reading the Riot Act to civil servants.’
- At 1.00 a.m. the mayor read the Riot Act and by 2.00 a.m. order had been restored before troops arrived at 6.00 a.m. from Sheffield.
- Earlier in the year, he had read the Riot Act to unemployed protestors in Victory Square.
- Up came the men in yellow and orange to read the Riot Act and cast a threatening cloud.
- In a three-hour meeting the military ruler read the Riot Act to his civilian subordinate and let the latter pretend that he was resigning on his own.
- He was in with his boss the next morning, reading the Riot Act.
- It was not a matter of reading the Riot Act; it was a matter of a debriefing session which we normally do after a big fire.
Synonyms reprimand, rebuke, scold, admonish, reprove, upbraid, chastise, chide, censure, castigate, lambaste, berate, lecture, criticize, take to task, give a piece of one's mind to, haul over the coals informal tell off, give someone a telling-off, dress down, give someone a dressing-down, bawl out, pitch into, lay into, lace into, blow up at, give someone an earful, give someone a roasting, give someone a rocket, give someone a rollicking British informal have a go at, carpet, tear someone off a strip, give someone what for, let someone have it North American informal chew out, ream out British vulgar slang bollock, give someone a bollocking
Definition of Riot Act in US English: Riot Actproper nounˈrīət akt A law passed by the British government in 1715 and repealed in 1967, designed to prevent civil disorder. The act made it a felony for an assembly of more than twelve people to refuse to disperse after being ordered to do so and having been read a specified section of the act by lawful authority. 取缔闹事法（英国政府1715年通过，1967年废除的一项法令，旨在防止国内动乱；该法规定12人以上的集会若接到解散命令，并由法律机关宣读此令的某一部分后仍拒不从命者犯重罪）
Phrasesread someone the Riot Act Give someone a strong warning that they must improve their behavior. 提出严重警告 he read the riot act to his players after hauling them in for extra training Example sentencesExamples - The upshot was that the Mayor read the Riot Act and the they postponed their get-together until the following month.
- Up came the men in yellow and orange to read the Riot Act and cast a threatening cloud.
- Earlier in the year, he had read the Riot Act to unemployed protestors in Victory Square.
- In a three-hour meeting the military ruler read the Riot Act to his civilian subordinate and let the latter pretend that he was resigning on his own.
- ‘Michael has a reputation for reading the Riot Act to civil servants.’
- It was not a matter of reading the Riot Act; it was a matter of a debriefing session which we normally do after a big fire.
- At 1.00 a.m. the mayor read the Riot Act and by 2.00 a.m. order had been restored before troops arrived at 6.00 a.m. from Sheffield.
- He was in with his boss the next morning, reading the Riot Act.
Synonyms reprimand, rebuke, scold, admonish, reprove, upbraid, chastise, chide, censure, castigate, lambaste, berate, lecture, criticize, take to task, give a piece of one's mind to, haul over the coals
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