(law) The process of negotiating a verdict and sentence without a complete trial.

Alternative spelling of plea-bargaining

present participle of plea-bargain

(US, law) Alternative form of plea bargain (“an agreement between a defendant and the prosecution in which the defendant agrees to a plea such as guilty or nolo contendere to a lesser charge rather than contesting a greater charge”).

(US, law) To make an agreement in which a defendant agrees to plead guilty to a lesser charge instead of not guilty to a greater one.

(US, law) An agreement in which a defendant agrees to plead guilty to a lesser charge instead of not guilty to a greater one

plural of plea bargain

plural of plea-bargain

simple past tense and past participle of plea-bargain