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What does imprisonable mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word imprisonable? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Capable of being imprisoned.
  2. (law, of an offence) The sentence for which is imprisonment.
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Anyone convicted of an imprisonable offence is barred from standing or if you are a public servant.
Remand in custody shall generally be available only in respect of persons suspected of committing offences that are imprisonable.
The charges are imprisonable and I'm going to send them to the crown court.
Henceforth, every Member State will have to make it an imprisonable offence to publicly justify, deny or crudely trivialise crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, and I am satisfied about that.
They allow the courts to imprison people for offences which are not otherwise imprisonable.
The generation which grew up in a world where being gay was an imprisonable offence are now the only age group that opposes same-sex marriages.

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