Usually means: Crime encompassed within more serious charge.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (lesser included offense)

noun:  (law) A crime the elements of which coincide with the elements of a more serious crime, from which the prosecutor is therefore precluded from separately charging a criminal defendant.

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