JEOPARDY


Meaning of JEOPARDY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

double jeopardy

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

double

Lawyers argued that it would be unfair and oppressive to remove the protection of the double jeopardy rule.

None was a case of double jeopardy .

Abolishing the rule of double jeopardy after a full trial and jury acquittal is unprincipled and impractical, he said.

Nor is there any double jeopardy bar to a civil case following a criminal acquittal.

The review of double jeopardy is not a zany proposal.

Does the Merger Regulation prevent double jeopardy ?

■ VERB

place

The criminal trial system would be placed in jeopardy .

Because in the act of explanation he would have to reveal his past culpability, and this would place him in jeopardy .

If it were to do so, the very existence of the currency union would be placed in jeopardy .

put

This infantile behaviour is putting the book in jeopardy and makes it very hard to collate info on what's going on.

J., it could put into jeopardy the routine affirmative action moves made by private and public employers nationwide.

I was not prepared to see that record put in jeopardy .

The message jolted him, for it suddenly put our destination in jeopardy .

None of that, for reasons that I have already explained, is put in jeopardy by the trust proposal.

He is not put into jeopardy for having made the mistakes but for having learned from them.

For the sake of a handful of people making huge profits the entire planet has been put in jeopardy .

Her film career languished and her friendship with the outspokenly leftist Paul Robeson put Horne in further jeopardy .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Because in the act of explanation he would have to reveal his past culpability, and this would place him in jeopardy .

It would put his career at risk, but that was already in jeopardy , so what had he to lose?

J., it could put into jeopardy the routine affirmative action moves made by private and public employers nationwide.

This infantile behaviour is putting the book in jeopardy and makes it very hard to collate info on what's going on.

Yet without fairly radical surgery, the long-term health of the company might have been in jeopardy .

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