parole
1- Penology.
- the conditional release of a person from prison prior to the end of the maximum sentence imposed.
- such release or its duration.
- an official document authorizing such a release.
- Military.
- the promise, usually written, of a prisoner of war, that if released he or she either will return to custody at a specified time or will not again take up arms against his or her captors.
- (formerly) any password given by authorized personnel in passing by a guard.
- word of honor given or pledged.
- (in U.S. immigration laws) the temporary admission of aliens into the U.S. for emergency reasons or on grounds considered in the public interest, as authorized by and at the discretion of the attorney general.
- to place or release on parole.
- to admit (an alien) into the U.S. under the parole provision: An increased number of Hungarian refugees were paroled into the United States.
- of or relating to parole or parolees: a parole record.
Origin of parole
1parole
2- language as manifested in the actual utterances produced by speakers of a language (contrasted with langue).
Examples from the Web for parole
Contemporary Examples of parole
On his eighth try, more than three decades after he went in, the parole board finally voted to release Sam.
As a free man, even on parole, I can sense that my life has value again.
A series of judges and parole officers had ordered him to go as an alternative to jail.
When convicted, those children can receive sentences as severe as life without the possibility of parole.
Paying Taxes and Going to Jail Like Adults; Teens Deserve the Right to Vote, TooJillian Keenan
October 6, 2014
But the law explicitly stated that a resulting life sentence was to be without even the possibility of parole.
How the North Carolina GOP Made a Wrongfully Convicted Man a Death Row ScapegoatMichael Daly
September 4, 2014
Historical Examples of parole
Give me leave for three days on parole, and I will see you fully satisfied.
Captain BloodRafael Sabatini
This parole he broke, landing from Europe at Vera Cruz in 1824.
Aztec LandMaturin M. Ballou
After reigning for a twelvemonth, he was banished from Mexico on parole never to return.
Aztec LandMaturin M. Ballou
If he could be released from parole he would do loyal service for his country.
Rodney, the RangerJohn V. Lane
I gave my parole, and was allowed to come here to nurse him.
A War-Time WooingCharles King
parole
- the freeing of a prisoner before his sentence has expired, on the condition that he is of good behaviour
- the duration of such conditional release
- a promise given by a prisoner, as to be of good behaviour if granted liberty or partial liberty
- a variant spelling of parol
- US military a password
- linguistics language as manifested in the individual speech acts of particular speakersCompare langue, performance (def. 7), competence (def. 5)
- on parole
- conditionally released from detention
- informal(of a person) under scrutiny, esp for a recurrence of an earlier shortcoming
- to place (a person) on parole
Word Origin for parole
Word Origin and History for parole
1610s, "word of honor," especially "promise by a prisoner of war not to escape," from French parole "word, speech" (in parole d'honneur "word of honor") from Vulgar Latin *paraula "speech, discourse," from Latin parabola (see parable). Sense of "conditional release of a prisoner before full term" is first attested 1908 in criminal slang.
1716, from parole (n.). Originally it was what the prisoner did ("pledge"); its transitive meaning "put on parole" is first attested 1782. Related: Paroled; paroling.