ちょうえき
Meanings
Noun
1. penal servitude; imprisonment with hard labor (hard labour)
He was sentenced to five years' imprisonment.
Pitch accent
ちょ
うえき
Used in vocabulary (2 in total)
life imprisonment; imprisonment for life; indefinite imprisonment
jail sentence; imprisonment
Examples (6 in total)
I got five years in prison.
The accused was condemned to ten years in prison.
Tom is now serving a 150-year prison sentence.
Bank robbery will cost you ten years in prison.
He was sentenced to five years' imprisonment.
He was eventually sentenced to five years in prison for that violent crime.