📚 Parole, noun. 🔉 /pəˈrəʊl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The temporary or permanent release of a prisoner before the expiry of a sentence, on the promise of good behaviour. ❗️ Examples: 1. He committed a burglary while on parole. 2. If this is not bad enough, a large percentage of women sentenced to prison on parole violations have not committed any new crimes, but rather were returned for not passing their urine tests. 3. Even in such cases, however, the task of the Parole Board is the same as in any other case: to assess the risk that the particular prisoner if released on parole, will offend again. 4. Over the years, Billie has gained insight into the reasons why prisoners released on parole so often fail and end up back in prison. 5. The result was that the applicant's aggregate sentence is nine years and four months, and the applicant's minimum sentence on parole is seven years and four months. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic