community-service order

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(in Britain) a court order requiring an offender over seventeen years old to do unpaid socially beneficial work under supervision instead of going to prison

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On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.
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The proceedings of the day commenced with divine service, performed by Unitarian and Baptist ministers.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.
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Turn away from sin and order thy hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all offence.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
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