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PLEA BARGAIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(criminal law) a negotiation in which the defendant agrees to enter a plea of guilty to a lesser charge and the prosecutor agrees to drop a more serious charge
Example:
plea bargaining helps to stop the courts becoming congested
Synonyms:
plea bargain; plea bargaining
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("plea bargain" is a kind of...):
bargaining (the negotiation of the terms of a transaction or agreement)
Domain category:
criminal law (the body of law dealing with crimes and their punishment)
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Derivation:
plea-bargain (agree to plead guilty in return for a lesser charge)
