How to pronounce “pardon”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• Forgiveness for an offence.
• (law) An order that releases a convicted criminal without further punishment, prevents future punishment, or (in some jurisdictions) removes an offence from a person's criminal record, as if it had never been committed.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To forgive (a person).
• (transitive) To refrain from exacting as a penalty.
• (transitive, law) To grant an official pardon for a crime.
• [Interjection]
• Often used when someone does not understand what another person says.

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