| 单词 | suspended sentence |
| 释义 | > as lemmassuspended sentence suspended sentence n. (Law), a sentence which is imposed but remains in suspense provided that the offender commits no further offence within a stipulated period.The suspended sentence was first introduced in Europe in the late nineteenth cent. Before this the phr. ‘to suspend sentence’ was used, esp. in the U.S., to denote the remission or commutation of a capital sentence (see quots. 1828, 18601). In Great Britain the suspended sentence became legal only in 1967 (see quot. 1967), and is commonly used in conjunction with the system of probation (see probation n. 3b).extracted from suspendedadj.n.< as lemmas |
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