plea bargaining

Noun plea bargaining has 1 sense

• plea bargaining(n = noun.communication) plea bargain - (criminal law) a negotiation in which the defendant agrees to enter a plea of guilty to a lesser charge and the prosecutor agrees to drop a more serious charge; "his admission was part of a plea bargain with the prosecutor"; "plea bargaining helps to stop the courts becoming congested"
is a kind of bargaining
Derived form verb plea-bargain₁