suspended sentence
noun
Definition of suspended sentence
law
: a legal arrangement in which a person who has been found guilty of a crime is not sentenced to jail but may be sentenced for that crime at a future time if he or she commits another crime during a specified period
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suspendplay suspended
: to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function
: to cause to stop temporarily
: to set aside or make temporarily inoperative
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sentenceplay
: opinion
: a conclusion given on request or reached after deliberation
: judgment
: to impose a sentence on
: to cause to suffer something
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