Prison Term

Definition: Prison Term

Prison Term

Noun

1. The period of time a prisoner is imprisoned; "he served a prison term of 15 months"; "his sentence was 5 to 10 years"; "he is doing time in the county jail".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Prison Term

Crosswords: Prison Term

Civil Liberties

Romania

However, in June 2000, on the recommendation of the Council of Europe, the Chamber of Deputies passed draft legislation that would reduce the sentence for libel to a fine instead of a prison term, and that would decrease the sentence for calumny to 3 to 12 months instead of the previous 2 to 6 years. (references)

Poland

The Criminal Code stipulates that offending religious sentiment through public speech is punishable by a fine or a 3-year prison term. (references)

Uzbekistan

Bakhodir Khasanov, an instructor of French at the Alliance Francaise who was detained and held incommunicado in July 2000, was sentenced to a long prison term for anticonstitutional activity. (references)

Human Rights

Uruguay

During the year a judge sentenced a female police officer to a prison term for shooting into a group of men who were attacking her in Montevideo. (references)

Ukraine

In January according to media reports, a sergeant was sentenced to a 5-year prison term for hazing a conscript who subsequently committed suicide. (references)

Argentina

In March a former Buenos Aires police officer was sentenced to a prison term of 14 years for killing Walter Repetto in 1998. In 2000 an officer and two agents from the Entre Rios police were convicted and sentenced to between 15 and 18 years in prison for the 1998 beating death of Juan Carlos Cardoso in Diamante, Entre Rios Province. (references)

Worker Rights

Malaysia

Punishment for these offenses includes a maximum 10-year prison term or a fine, to be determined at the discretion of the sentencing judge. (references)

Czech Republic

Organizing prostitution and pimping are illegal and punishable by a prison term of up to 8 years, with a term of up to 12 years if the victim is under the age of 15. (Adults can be prosecuted for engaging in sexual activity with a minor under the age of 15.) The Czechs cooperate extensively with other Central and Eastern European countries, European Union members and the United States during investigation and prosecution of trafficking cases. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Chinese 

刑期 . (various references)

Finnish

vankeusaika. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

刑期 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

けいき (business, chance, condition, gauge, light machine gun, meter, occurring in succession, opportunity, state). (various references)

Pig Latin

isonpray ermtay

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: importers, misreport, orpiments, reimports.

-2 letters: importer, imposter, introrse, mortiser, nepotism, orpiment, pierrots, pimentos, pointers, porniest, pretrims, primeros, primrose, printers, prisoner, promines, promiser, proteins, reimport, reprints, sportier, sprinter, stormier, tropines.

-3 letters: emptins, erotism, impones, imports, imposer, imprest, ironers, mentors, merinos, mestino, minster, minters, moisten, moister, monster, mopiest, mortise, norites, oestrin, optimes, orients, orpines, peonism.

+1 letter: importuners.

+2 letters: impersonator, impregnators, misreporting, promontories, trampoliners.

+3 letters: impersonators, intercompares, preformations, pretermission, primogenitors, redemptioners, superromantic, temporariness.

+4 letters: bromocriptines, chromoproteins, contemporaries, hypermodernist, micropunctures, peremptoriness, postretirement, preordainments, pretermissions, primogenitures, reimportations, sportfisherman, sportfishermen, supernormality.

+5 letters: anthropometries, hypermodernists, intercomparison, interparoxysmal, mercaptopurines, paranormalities, preformationist, preterminations, temporarinesses.

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