ちょうえき
Meanings
Noun
1. penal servitude; imprisonment with hard labor (hard labour)
Pitch accent
ちょ
うえき
Used in vocabulary (2 in total)
life imprisonment; imprisonment for life; indefinite imprisonment
jail sentence; imprisonment
Examples (5 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 eventually sentenced to five years in prison for that violent crime.