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PRISON TERM
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The period of time a prisoner is imprisoned
Example:
he is doing time in the county jail
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("prison term" is a kind of...):
term (a limited period of time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prison term"):
hard time (a term served in a maximum security prison)
life; life sentence (a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives)