parole

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Mr Gowan, your parole is at an end, sir.

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  1. noun Law The release of a prisoner whose term has not expired on condition of sustained lawful behavior that is subject to regular monitoring by an officer of the law for a set period of time.
  2. noun Law The duration of such conditional release.
  3. noun A password used by an officer of the day, an officer on guard, or the personnel commanded by such an officer.
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  • When those offenders violate parole, their arrest warrants become a priority for Danzy and his colleagues, who hope their diligent work will help Baltimore shed its bloody image. —  Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
  • The sentence of life without parole -- LWOP, as it's called -- dramatically bolsters popular support for abolition of the death penalty.
  • A white supremacist convicted of a killing an Atlantic County woman outside a local movie theater was sentenced to life in prison without parole, according to
  • "Now that they have life without parole, they're more willing to impose that," she said. —  coshoctontribune.com - Local News
  • He was sentenced in 2003 to serve eight years in prison and at least 10 years on Sex Offender Intensive Supervision parole, according to police. —  coloradoan.com - Local News
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  1. French, promise, word, from Vulgar Latin *paraula, from Latin parabola, discourse; see parable.

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  1. Formerly also parol, paroll (parol being still common in legal use); from F. parole = Spanish palabra = Portuguese palavra = Italian parola, a word (Spanish Portuguese parola, loquacity), from ML parabola, a word, speech, Late Latin parable, etc.; see parable. Cf. parl.
  2. from parole, n.
 

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