執行猶予
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Meanings
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suspended sentence; stay of execution
Legal term for a suspended prison sentence, where execution of the sentence is postponed for a probationary period. Often used in the phrase 執行猶予が付く or 執行猶予付きの判決.
The judge handed down a suspended sentence to the defendant.
If you commit another crime while on a suspended sentence, you are likely to serve actual prison time.
Usage patterns
- 〈事〉に執行猶予がつくfor a case/sentence to come with a suspension
This time the sentence came with a suspension.
- 執行猶予付きの判決を受けるto receive a suspended sentence
He received a suspended sentence.
- 執行猶予中に〈事〉を犯すto commit an offense while on a suspended sentence
He committed another crime while his sentence was suspended.
- 執行猶予が取り消されるfor a suspended sentence to be revoked
Due to a repeat offense, the suspended sentence was revoked.