Usually means: Imposing legal penalties for crimes.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word sentencing:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. sentencing: Merriam-Webster
  2. sentencing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. sentencing: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sentencing: Vocabulary.com
  5. Sentencing, sentencing: Wordnik
  6. sentencing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. sentencing: Wiktionary
  8. sentencing: Dictionary.com
  9. sentencing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Sentencing (The Wire), Sentencing (The Wire episode): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Sentencing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. Sentencing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. sentencing: FreeDictionary.org
  14. sentencing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sentencing: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. sentencing: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sentencing: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sentencing: Idioms

(Note: See sentence as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sentencing)

adjective:  Relating to a judicial sentence.
noun:  (uncountable) The act of pronouncing a judicial sentence on someone convicted of a crime.
noun:  (countable) That which has been pronounced as a judgement or sentence for a crime.
noun:  (colloquial) The act of creating one or more complete sentences from fragmented thoughts and phrases.

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