suspended sentence
B2CEFR level
50/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
A custodial sentence that does not take effect unless the offender commits a further offence or breaches its requirements during a set period.
He received a twelve-month suspended sentence, so he will serve no time provided he complies with the order.
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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