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Prison term   /prˈɪzən tərm/   Listen
Prison term

noun
1.
The period of time a prisoner is imprisoned.  Synonyms: sentence, time.  "His sentence was 5 to 10 years" , "He is doing time in the county jail"





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"Prison term" Quotes from Famous Books



... consideration. I recall his pride in the long pleats of glossy black hair that adorned his handsome head. It was a graceful recognition of his gallantry that the authorities at the penitentiary, at the instance of the Department, left the fine locks of their captive unshorn during his prison term. At the suggestion of the Mounted Police officers many of the chiefs who had remained loyal were taken on a tour of the east, where they received many tokens of the kindly ...
— Policing the Plains - Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police • R.G. MacBeth
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Words linked to "Prison term" :   life, term, life sentence, hard time, sentence


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