Word.ws English Dictionary

double jeopardy

double jeopardy noun: the act of trying someone twice for the same offense, especially after an acquittal in the first trial.

Noun (1)

double jeopardy (uncountable)

  1. The act of trying someone twice for the same offense, especially after an acquittal in the first trial.
    • In the intervening years, the Costa Rican justice system (which has no double jeopardy law) has tried Ann Bender for murder on three separate occasions; of these, she was convicted once and acquitted twice.2025 October 8, Stuart Heritage, “‘Their chemistry made one of their deaths inevitable’: how a billionaire couple’s life in paradise turned deadly”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
    • Should Mangione plead guilty in the federal case, his legal team could take steps to dismiss his state case on double jeopardy grounds.2026 August 13, Jonathan Dienst, Adam Reiss, Erica Byfield, Matt Lavietes, Chloe Atkins, “Luigi Mangione expected to plead guilty in New York federal case”, in NBC News, archived from the original on...

Noun (2) capitalized: Double Jeopardy

Double Jeopardy

  1. A round of questioning or other situation where the possible gains and/or losses from choices are magnified.
    • John McClane: Sorry Hans, wrong guess. Would you like to go for Double Jeopardy where the scores can really change?1988 July, Steven E. de Souza, Die Hard, 20th Century Fox
    • Specifically, if after all this travel the application is inefficiently designed, the process gets into double jeopardy, where the scores can really change.1999, “Optimizing Network Traffic”, in Notes from the Field, volume 3, Microsoft Press

double jeopardy meaning in Tamil and Tagalog

double jeopardy in Tamil

இரட்டை இடர்பாடு, ஒரேவழக்கில் இரு விசாரணை

double jeopardy in Tagalog

trying someone twice for the same offense
makalawang pagkasuong

Origin of double jeopardy

Named after an element of the quiz show Jeopardy!, in turn named for the legal concept double jeopardy.

Questions about double jeopardy

What does double jeopardy mean?
Double jeopardy means the act of trying someone twice for the same offense, especially after an acquittal in the first trial.
What is double jeopardy in Tamil?
Double jeopardy in Tamil is இரட்டை இடர்பாடு, ஒரேவழக்கில் இரு விசாரணை. See Double jeopardy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is double jeopardy?
Double jeopardy is a noun.

Words near double jeopardy in the dictionary

  1. Double Island
  2. double jack
  3. double jacks
  4. double jasmine
  5. double jasmines
  6. double jeopardy
  7. double jobbing
  8. double jump
  9. double jumped
  10. double jumping
  11. double jumps

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: double jeopardy (page history and authors); Double Jeopardy (page history and authors); double jeopardy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “double jeopardy.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/double_jeopardy. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.