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Meaning 1
(criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed; "the conviction came as no surprise".
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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Meaning 2
A string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language; "he always spoke in grammatical sentences".
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 3
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".
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Nouns denoting time and temporal relations.