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indeterminate sentence
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noun Criminal Law.
a penalty, imposed by a court, that has relatively wide limits or no limits, as one of imprisonment for one to ten years.
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Origin of indeterminate sentence
First recorded in 1870–75
Words nearby indeterminate sentence
indeterminable, indeterminacy, indeterminacy principle, indeterminate, indeterminate equation, indeterminate sentence, indeterminate vowel, indetermination, indeterminism, index, indexation
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British Dictionary definitions for indeterminate sentence
indeterminate sentence
noun
law a prison sentence the length of which depends on the prisoner's conduct
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