Usually means: Imprisonment lasting until death occurs.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. life sentence: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. life sentence: Merriam-Webster
  3. life sentence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. life sentence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. life sentence: Vocabulary.com
  6. life-sentence: Wordnik
  7. life sentence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. life sentence: Wiktionary
  9. life sentence: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. life sentence: Dictionary.com
  11. Life Sentence (TV series), Life Sentence (disambiguation), Life Sentence, Life sentence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. life sentence: Rhymezone
  13. life sentence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. life sentence: FreeDictionary.org
  15. life sentence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. life sentence: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. life sentence: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)

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  1. life sentence: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (life sentence)

▸ noun:  (law) A sentence of imprisonment for the remainder of the defendant's life.

Similar:
life, life imprisonment, lifer, jailtime, lagging, estate for life, life-lease, suspended sentence, stretch, mandatory sentence, more...

Opposite:
parole, probation, release

Types:
life without parole, more...

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Similar:
life, life imprisonment, lifer, jailtime, lagging, estate for life, life-lease, suspended sentence, stretch, mandatory sentence, more...

Opposite:
parole, probation, release

Types:
life without parole, more...



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