jeopardy
jeopardy
Definition
jeop·ardy (-dē)
noun pl. -·ard·ies
- great danger; peril to have one's life in jeopardy
- Law exposure to conviction and punishment; situation of an accused person on trial for a crime
Etymology: ME jeuparti < OFr jeu parti, lit., a divided game, game with even chances < ML jocus partitus, an even chance, alternative < L jocus, a game, joke + pp. of partire, to divide: see part
jeopardy
Synonyms
jeopardy
Law Definition
n
A defendants risk of punishment.
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Usage Examples
Preposition: as
- result: Assurances were sought that no services should be put in jeopardy as a result of NGC's proposed activities.
Converse of object
- avoid: But we need to go further if we are to avoid the double jeopardy of worsening social problems and escalating tax bills.
- double: Recent examples of its work vary from land registration to offenses of fraud, and from housing law to double jeopardy.
- face: The Government faces double jeopardy: spending increases that are unbalancing the public finances, yet barely improving services.
Adjective modifier
- double: Any risk of double jeopardy is excluded in either case.
- serious: Anything else, he feels, would place science in serious jeopardy.
- extreme: AB: You need to define the statement ' extreme jeopardy ' used here.
- real: The whole Hamas government project is now in real jeopardy.
- great: The person renting is in a far greater jeopardy than the buyer of many years.
- further: The reclamation project is predicted to put Jakarta in further jeopardy.
Modifies a noun
- rule: In Scotland the former ruling relating to double jeopardy rule still applies.
- law: We heard from lawyer Julian Young about what the scrapping of the double jeopardy law could mean.
- principle: The right to trial by jury and the double jeopardy principle have both been eroded by an executive that seeks targets and conviction rates.
- man: Double jeopardy man is given life... news.bbc.co.uk BBC NEWS | Politics.. .
- case: I listened to the 10 o clock news and was really pleased to hear about the first successful double jeopardy case.
Preposition: by
- failure: We carry sufficient spares and replacements to ensure that your business is not placed in jeopardy by the failure of computer equipment.
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