Definitions for plea

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plea plea

Spelling: [plee]

IPA: /pli/

Plea is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in plea (aelp).

Definitions for plea

noun

1. an appeal or entreaty:
2. something that is alleged, urged, or pleaded in defense or justification.
3. an excuse; pretext:
4. Law. an allegation made by, or on behalf of, a party to a legal suit, in support of his or her claim or defense. a defendant's answer to a legal declaration or charge. (in courts of equity) a plea that admits the truth of the declaration, but alleges special or new matter in avoidance. Obsolete. a suit or action.

Idioms

1. cop a plea, Slang. cop1 (def 5b).

Origin of plea

1175-1225; Middle English ple, earlier plaid Old French early Medieval Latin placitum law-court, suit, decision, decree, Latin: opinion (literally, that which is pleasing or agreeable), noun

Examples for plea

Burke, however, shook his head in remonstrance against Gilder's plea.

Again, Garson shook his head in absolute refusal of her plea.

He plead guilty in a plea deal and was punished only with five years of probation.

The mother also made a plea to the violent ones who wreak such havoc.

The plea touched to the bottom of her heart, but she could not, would not yield.

He later accepted a plea deal that put him behind bars for 25 years.

Life shelves them on the plea that they are old; but that is not the reason.

Truly then his plea of exhaustion would not be without excuse!

Instead, Kolko received a plea deal that allowed him to plea guilty to child endangerment.

Schettino also tried to enter a plea bargain agreement, which ultimately was rejected by the Grosseto court.