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parolelike

parolelike adjective: resembling or characteristic of parole.

Adjective

parolelike (comparative more parolelike, superlative most parolelike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of parole.
    • It is of considerable interest that parole boards as discretionary decision makers are more susceptible to attack than is parolelike supervision.1980, Frederick Hussey, David Duffee, Probation, parole, and community field services, page 99
    • Although a six-agency task force decided in 2009 that Mr. Shalabi was too dangerous to release, a parolelike panel called the Periodic Review Board, consisting of representatives from the same six agencies, decided in June that he could now be safely repatriated to Saudi Arabia.2015 September 22, Charlie Savage, “Saudi Held at Guantánamo Is Repatriated, Reducing Number of Detainees to 114”, in New York Times

Forms of parolelike

comparativemore parolelike
superlativemost parolelike

Origin of parolelike

From parole + -like.

Questions about parolelike

What does parolelike mean?
Parolelike means resembling or characteristic of parole.
What part of speech is parolelike?
Parolelike is an adjective.

Words near parolelike in the dictionary

  1. parole officer
  2. parole officers
  3. paroled
  4. parolee
  5. parolees
  6. parolelike
  7. paroles
  8. paroling
  9. parolivary
  10. parology
  11. parols

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