EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does executive clemency mean? 

• EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY (noun)
  The noun EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY has 1 sense:

1. the power (usually of a president or governor) to pardon or commute the sentence of someone convicted in that jurisdiction

  Familiarity information: EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY (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)