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English
Noun
life sentence (plural life sentences)
- (law) A sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life.
Derived terms
Translations
sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
- Arabic: سَجْن مَدَى اَلْحَيَاة m (sajn madā l-ḥayāh), سَجْن مُؤَبَّد m (sajn muʔabbad), حُكْم مُؤَبَّد m (ḥukm muʔabbad), حَبْس مُؤَبَّد m (ḥabs muʔabbad)
- Catalan: cadena perpètua f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 無期徒刑／无期徒刑 (zh) (wúqī túxíng), 終身監禁／终身监禁 (zh) (zhōngshēn jiānjìn)
- Czech: doživotí n
- Dutch: levenslange gevangenisstraf f, levenslang (nl)
- Esperanto: dumviva malliberiĝo, dumviva karcero, dumviva malliberejo, ĝismorta malliberejo
- Finnish: elinkautinen (fi)
- French: condamnation à perpétuité f, emprisonnement à perpétuité m
- German: lebenslange Haftstrafe, lebenslänglich (de)
- Greek: ισόβια (el) f (isóvia)
- Hungarian: életfogytiglan (hu)
- Italian: ergastolo (it) m
- Japanese: 終身刑 (ja) (しゅうしんけい, shūshinkei)
- Korean: 종신형(終身刑) (ko) (jongsinhyeong)
- Malayalam: ജീവപര്യന്തം തടവ് (jīvaparyantaṁ taṭavŭ)
- Polish: dożywocie (pl) n
- Portuguese: prisão perpétua f
- Romanian: închisoare pe viață
- Russian: пожи́зненное заключе́ние n (požíznennoje zaključénije)
- Spanish: cadena perpetua (es) f, presidio perpetuo m, prisión perpetua f
- Swedish: livstidsstraff (sv) n
- Vietnamese: án chung thân, chung thân (vi), tù chung thân
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