plea-bargain

1. 1.

   agree to plead guilty in return for a lesser charge

   “If he plea-bargains, he will be sent to a medium-security prison for 8 years”

   Broaderagree

   law

Questions about plea-bargain

What does plea-bargain mean?

plea-bargain means "agree to plead guilty in return for a lesser charge".

How many syllables are in plea-bargain?

plea-bargain has 4 syllables: ple-a--bar-gain. The stress falls on "a-".

Is plea-bargain a common word?

plea-bargain 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.