"at Her Majesty's pleasure" meaning in English

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Prepositional phrase

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
    Sense id: en-at_Her_Majesty's_pleasure-en-prep_phrase-wwh8bW~L Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Terms with Mandarin translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 98 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 4 96 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 10 90
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: live at Her Majesty's pleasure Coordinate_terms: at His Majesty's pleasure, at the Governor's pleasure Translations (at Her Majesty's pleasure): 由女王陛下發落 (Chinese Mandarin), 由女王陛下发落 (yóu nǚwáng bìxià fāluò) (Chinese Mandarin), 等候英女皇發落 (Chinese Mandarin), 等候英女皇发落 (děnghòu Yīngnǚhuáng fāluò) [Hong-Kong] (Chinese Mandarin)
Disambiguation of "at Her Majesty's pleasure": 0 0
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