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penal servitude Definition

penal servitude

noun

imprisonment, usually at hard labor: the legal punishment for conviction of certain crimes

penal servitude Usage Examples

Possessives

  • year: He imposed a sentence of fifteen years ' penal servitude.

Preposition: for

  • life: The Act replaced the death penalty for abortion by penal servitude for life.
  • year: This was commuted to penal servitude for ten years.
  • offense: The three men who made this ill-starred attempt to escape were all doing long terms of penal servitude for serious offenses.

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