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EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The power (usually of a president or governor) to pardon or commute the sentence of someone convicted in that jurisdiction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("executive clemency" is a kind of...):
office; power ((of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power)
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