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.
Words nearby indeterminate sentence
indeterminable, indeterminacy, indeterminacy principle, indeterminate, indeterminate equation, indeterminate sentence, indeterminate vowel, indetermination, indeterminism, index, index card
Origin of indeterminate sentence
First recorded in 1870–75
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Examples from the Web for indeterminate sentence
The state has a parole law and an indeterminate-sentence law for convicts.
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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