life imprisonment

1. 1.

   a sentence of imprisonment until death

   Broadercaptivity

Questions about life imprisonment

What does life imprisonment mean?

life imprisonment means "a sentence of imprisonment until death".

Is life imprisonment a common word?

life imprisonment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.