life imprisonment

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
life imprisonment

▶noun a long term of imprisonment (rarely the whole of a person's life), which (in the UK) is now the only sentence for murder and the maximum for any crime.

'life imprisonment' also found in these Oxford entries:

life sentence - three strikes

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