Serve-time Definition

verb

(idiomatic) To be in prison or a similar institute.

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Synonyms:
  • be sent up
  • do-time
  • be in the joint
  • pay-one-s-debt-to-society
  • be in stir
  • do a term
  • go to jail
  • stand committed
  • be incarcerated
  • serve out a jail sentence
  • be in jail

Serve-time Sentence Examples

  • Chapman's hard-living style finally caught up with him in 1977, when he was found guilty of murder and forced to serve time in a Texas prison.

  • He was later sent to jail to serve time for tax evasion.

  • Now that Paris is headed to the big house to serve time for violating her probation, it just seemed, well, newsworthy to drag out this track, her hit from last summer.

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