Usually means: Official pardon for political offenses.
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  1. amnesty: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. amnesty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. amnesty: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. amnesty: Collins English Dictionary
  5. amnesty: Vocabulary.com
  6. Amnesty, amnesty: Wordnik
  7. amnesty: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Amnesty, amnesty: Wiktionary
  9. amnesty: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. amnesty: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. amnesty: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. amnesty: Dictionary.com
  13. amnesty: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. amnesty: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Amnesty (I), Amnesty (disambiguation), Amnesty: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Amnesty: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. amnesty: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. amnesty: Rhymezone
  19. amnesty: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. amnesty: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. amnesty: Free Dictionary
  22. amnesty: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  24. amnesty: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. amnesty: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. amnesty: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. amnesty: Legal dictionary

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  1. amnesty: Encyclopedia

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  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. Conflict Resolution Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. amnesty: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See amnestied as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion.
noun:  An act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection.
verb:  (transitive) To grant a pardon (to a group)
noun:  Amnesty International, a UK-based charity.

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