1 (formal) ~ (for sth) an urgent emotional request:
She made an impassioned plea for help. * a plea to industries to stop pollution * He refused to listen to her tearful pleas.
2 (law) a statement made by sb or for sb who is accused of a crime:
a plea of guilty / not guilty * to enter / offer a guilty plea
3 ~ of sth (law) a reason given to a court of law for doing or not doing sth:
He was charged with murder, but got off on a plea of insanity.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for plea is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is plea a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, plea is tagged as noun.
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