presentencing

Occurring before sentencing.

Adjective

  1. Occurring before sentencing.
    • Mr. Scrushy has been on presentencing release since a federal jury in Montgomery last year convicted him of bribing former Gov. Don Siegelman of Alabama. - 2007 April 15, “Did Anyone Ask About a Yacht?”, in New York...

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English sentencing English presentencing From pre- + sentencing.

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of presentence