"at Her Majesty's pleasure" meaning in All languages combined

See at Her Majesty's pleasure on Wiktionary

Prepositional phrase [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase|head=at Her Majesty's pleasure}} at Her Majesty's pleasure, {{en-prep phrase|at Her Majesty's pleasure}} at Her Majesty's pleasure
  1. (law, of a position notionally granted or imposed by a queen) indefinitely; for an arbitrary period determined by the monarch or her government (especially for indefinite tenure or imprisonment) Categories (topical): Law
    Sense id: en-at_Her_Majesty's_pleasure-en-prep_phrase-qEV3867x Topics: law
  2. (informal, loosely) in prison Tags: broadly, informal Synonyms: prison Derived forms: live at Her Majesty's pleasure Coordinate_terms: at His Majesty's pleasure, at the Governor's pleasure
    Sense id: en-at_Her_Majesty's_pleasure-en-prep_phrase-wwh8bW~L Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 9 91

Download JSON data for at Her Majesty's pleasure meaning in All languages combined (2.2kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prepositional phrase",
        "head": "at Her Majesty's pleasure"
      },
      "expansion": "at Her Majesty's pleasure",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "at Her Majesty's pleasure"
      },
      "expansion": "at Her Majesty's pleasure",
      "name": "en-prep phrase"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Law",
          "orig": "en:Law",
          "parents": [
            "Justice",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The Governor serves at Her Majesty's pleasure.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "The murderer was imprisoned at Her Majesty's pleasure.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "indefinitely; for an arbitrary period determined by the monarch or her government (especially for indefinite tenure or imprisonment)"
      ],
      "id": "en-at_Her_Majesty's_pleasure-en-prep_phrase-qEV3867x",
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law#English"
        ],
        [
          "queen",
          "queen"
        ],
        [
          "indefinitely",
          "indefinitely"
        ],
        [
          "tenure",
          "tenure#English"
        ],
        [
          "imprisonment",
          "imprisonment#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(law, of a position notionally granted or imposed by a queen) indefinitely; for an arbitrary period determined by the monarch or her government (especially for indefinite tenure or imprisonment)"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a position notionally granted or imposed by a queen"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "9 91",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "14 86",
          "word": "at His Majesty's pleasure"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "14 86",
          "word": "at the Governor's pleasure"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "_dis1": "14 86",
          "word": "live at Her Majesty's pleasure"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He spent two years at Her Majesty's pleasure.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "in prison"
      ],
      "id": "en-at_Her_Majesty's_pleasure-en-prep_phrase-wwh8bW~L",
      "links": [
        [
          "prison",
          "prison"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, loosely) in prison"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "prison"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "at Her Majesty's pleasure"
  ],
  "word": "at Her Majesty's pleasure"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English prepositional phrases"
  ],
  "coordinate_terms": [
    {
      "word": "at His Majesty's pleasure"
    },
    {
      "word": "at the Governor's pleasure"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "live at Her Majesty's pleasure"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prepositional phrase",
        "head": "at Her Majesty's pleasure"
      },
      "expansion": "at Her Majesty's pleasure",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "at Her Majesty's pleasure"
      },
      "expansion": "at Her Majesty's pleasure",
      "name": "en-prep phrase"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "en:Law"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The Governor serves at Her Majesty's pleasure.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "The murderer was imprisoned at Her Majesty's pleasure.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "indefinitely; for an arbitrary period determined by the monarch or her government (especially for indefinite tenure or imprisonment)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law#English"
        ],
        [
          "queen",
          "queen"
        ],
        [
          "indefinitely",
          "indefinitely"
        ],
        [
          "tenure",
          "tenure#English"
        ],
        [
          "imprisonment",
          "imprisonment#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(law, of a position notionally granted or imposed by a queen) indefinitely; for an arbitrary period determined by the monarch or her government (especially for indefinite tenure or imprisonment)"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a position notionally granted or imposed by a queen"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He spent two years at Her Majesty's pleasure.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "in prison"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "prison",
          "prison"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, loosely) in prison"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "prison"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "at Her Majesty's pleasure"
  ],
  "word": "at Her Majesty's pleasure"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.