EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The power (usually of a president or governor) to pardon or commute the sentence of someone convicted in that jurisdiction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("executive clemency" is a kind of...):

office; power ((of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power)

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