English-French translations for suspended sentence

• sursis
  Une personne a été condamnée à un an et demi avec sursis. One person got a suspended sentence of one and a half years.
  La société de l'automobile que nous connaissons aujourd'hui s'est donc vue infliger une condamnation avec sursis. The car-based society as we know it today has thus been given a suspended sentence.
  Ils ont été condamnés à des peines avec sursis avant d'être relâchés et expulsés du pays. They were given suspended sentences before being released and expelled from the country.

Definition of suspended sentence

• A sentence which the offender serves in probation unless he/she commits another crime during the period the sentence is in force

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