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plea bargaining

 
Noun plea bargaining has 1 sense
  1. 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; "his admission was part of a plea bargain with the prosecutor"; "plea bargaining helps to stop the courts becoming congested"
    --1 is a kind of bargaining
    Derived form: verb plea-bargain1
Verb plea bargain has 1 sense
  1. plea-bargain - agree to plead guilty in return for a lesser charge; "If he plea-bargains, he will be sent to a medium-security prison for 8 years"
    --1 is one way to agree
    Derived forms: noun plea bargain1, noun plea bargaining1
    Sample sentence:
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