parolelike

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English

Etymology

From parole +‎ -like.

Adjective

parolelike (comparative more parolelike, superlative most parolelike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of parole.
    • 1980, Frederick Hussey, David Duffee, Probation, parole, and community field services, page 99:
      It is of considerable interest that parole boards as discretionary decision makers are more susceptible to attack than is parolelike supervision.
    • 2015 September 22, Charlie Savage, “Saudi Held at Guantánamo Is Repatriated, Reducing Number of Detainees to 114”, in New York Times:
      Although a six-agency task force decided in 2009 that Mr. Shalabi was too dangerous to release, a parolelike panel called the Periodic Review Board, consisting of representatives from the same six agencies, decided in June that he could now be safely repatriated to Saudi Arabia.