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indeterminate sentence

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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