PLEA-BARGAIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plea-bargain mean? 

• PLEA-BARGAIN (verb)
  The verb PLEA-BARGAIN has 1 sense:

1. agree to plead guilty in return for a lesser charge

  Familiarity information: PLEA-BARGAIN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLEA-BARGAIN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Agree to plead guilty in return for a lesser charge

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

If he plea-bargains, he will be sent to a medium-security prison for 8 years

Hypernyms (to "plea-bargain" is one way to...):

agree (consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

plea bargain; plea bargaining ((criminal law) a negotiation in which the defendant agrees to enter a plea of guilty to a lesser charge and the prosecutor agrees to drop a more serious charge)