Definitions for parole

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parole pa·role

Spelling: [puh-rohl]

IPA: /pəˈroʊl/

Parole is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 142 anagrams from letters in parole (aelopr).

Definitions for parole

noun

1. Penology. the conditional release of a person from prison prior to the end of the maximum sentence imposed. such release or its duration. an official document authorizing such a release.
2. Military. the promise, usually written, of a prisoner of war, that if released he or she either will return to custody at a specified time or will not again take up arms against his or her captors. (formerly) any password given by authorized personnel in passing by a guard.
3. word of honor given or pledged.
4. (in U.S. immigration laws) the temporary admission of aliens into the U.S. for emergency reasons or on grounds considered in the public interest, as authorized by and at the discretion of the attorney general.
5. language as manifested in the actual utterances produced by speakers of a language (contrasted with langue).

adjective

1. of or relating to parole or parolees:

verb (used with object)

1. to place or release on parole.
2. to admit (an alien) into the U.S. under the parole provision:

Origin of parole

1610-20; Middle French, short for parole d'honneur word of honor. See parol

Examples for parole

If he could be released from parole he would do loyal service for his country.

As a free man, even on parole, I can sense that my life has value again.

When convicted, those children can receive sentences as severe as life without the possibility of parole.

Give me leave for three days on parole, and I will see you fully satisfied.

But the law explicitly stated that a resulting life sentence was to be without even the possibility of parole.

I gave my parole, and was allowed to come here to nurse him.

On his eighth try, more than three decades after he went in, the parole board finally voted to release Sam.

This parole he broke, landing from Europe at Vera Cruz in 1824.

After reigning for a twelvemonth, he was banished from Mexico on parole never to return.

A series of judges and parole officers had ordered him to go as an alternative to jail.