0 past simple and past participle of reprieve --
1 to stop or delay the punishment, especially by death, of a prisoner --
The threatened hospitals could now be reprieved.
In that context, what proportion of the programmes that have been reduced or reprieved represent capital expenditure?
That boy spent 92 days in the condemned cell watching that door before he was reprieved.
Some of the ships that have been reprieved were involved in the task force.
It was on the basis of the identification that he was convicted and sentenced to death, but was reprieved.
The people whose future career is thus reported upon were all people who had been reprieved.
He spoke of others who had not been reprieved, though he did not give their names.
When a death sentence has been reprieved, the substitute has always been a sentence of life imprisonment.
They have been reprieved because it was thought that in their cases there was a mitigating factor.
