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PLEA-BARGAIN
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Agree to plead guilty in return for a lesser charge
Example:
If he plea-bargains, he will be sent to a medium-security prison for 8 years
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "plea-bargain" is one way to...):
agree (consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
plea bargain; plea bargaining ((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)
