Usually means: Formal abandonment of legal prosecution.
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  1. nol-pros: Merriam-Webster
  2. nol-pros: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nol-pros: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nol-pros: Wordnik
  5. nol-pros: Wiktionary
  6. nol-pros: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. nol-pros: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. nol-pros: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Nol-pros, nol-pros: Dictionary.com
  10. Nol-pros: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. nol-pros: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Nol-pros: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. nol-pros: FreeDictionary.org
  14. nol-pros: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. nol-pros: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
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  3. nol-pros: Legal dictionary

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▸ verb:  (law, transitive) To discontinue by entering a nolle prosequi; to decline to prosecute.

Similar:
non-pros, stop, nill, cease and desist, unlicense, nullify, disprofess, negate, disapply, prorogue, more...

Opposite:
prosecution, conviction, guilty verdict

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Similar:
non-pros, stop, nill, cease and desist, unlicense, nullify, disprofess, negate, disapply, prorogue, more...

Opposite:
prosecution, conviction, guilty verdict



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