amnestynoun
uk/ˈæm.nə.sti/us/ˈæm.nə.sti/[ C or U ] a decision by a government that allows political prisoners to go free:
Most political prisoners were freed under the terms of the amnesty.
[ C usually singular ] a fixed period of time during which people are not punished for committing a particular crime:
People who hand in illegal weapons will not be prosecuted during the amnesty.
The government refused to declare an amnesty for people who had not paid the disputed tax.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not punishing & reducing punishment
- absolve
- clemency
- commutation
- commute
- diplomatic immunity
- discharge
- free pardon
- get away with murder idiom
- hook
- impunity
- let
- let sb off
- off the hook idiom
- pardon
- parole
- remission
- remit
- reprieve
- spare
- unpunished
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