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nonjailable

nonjailable adjective: not jailable.

Adjective

nonjailable (not comparable)

  1. Not jailable.
    • The heart of Gail Atwater’s civil rights claim was that going to jail for a nonjailable offense should be a presumptively unreasonable seizure under the Fourth Amendment.2020, Alexandra Natapoff, “Atwater and the Misdemeanor Carceral State”, in Harvard Law Review, volume 133, number 147, page 157

Origin of nonjailable

From non- + jailable.

Questions about nonjailable

What does nonjailable mean?
Nonjailable means not jailable.
What part of speech is nonjailable?
Nonjailable is an adjective.

Words near nonjailable in the dictionary

  1. nonivamide
  2. nonjacketed
  3. nonjade
  4. nonjaded
  5. nonjail
  6. nonjailable
  7. nonjanitorial
  8. nonjava
  9. nonjazz
  10. nonjealous
  11. nonjewelry

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