Usually means: Incarceration for the entire life.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. life imprisonment: Merriam-Webster
  2. life imprisonment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. life imprisonment: Collins English Dictionary
  4. life imprisonment: Vocabulary.com
  5. life-imprisonment: Wordnik
  6. life imprisonment: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. life imprisonment: Dictionary.com
  8. Life imprisonment (England and Wales), Life imprisonment (United States), Life imprisonment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. life imprisonment: Rhymezone
  10. life imprisonment: FreeDictionary.org
  11. life imprisonment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. life imprisonment: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. life imprisonment: Wiktionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. life imprisonment: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. life imprisonment: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (life imprisonment)

noun:  (law) The state of being imprisoned for the rest of one's life.
noun:  (Malaysia, law) A sentence of imprisonment of thirty years; reclusión perpetua.

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