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concurrent sentence

noun

C2CEFR level
75/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

A sentence for more than one offence in which the terms run at the same time rather than one after another.

The judge ordered concurrent sentences so that the total time served would be three years.

Topic: Criminal law in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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