Usually means: Incarceration awaiting execution for crimes.
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  1. death row: Merriam-Webster
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  3. death row: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  7. death row: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. death row: Wiktionary
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  12. Death Row (album), Death Row, Death row (disambiguation), Death row: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  1. death row: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
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  1. Death Row: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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Definitions from Wiktionary (death row)

▸ noun:  The section of a prison which houses those inmates who are sentenced to death.

Similar:
death chamber, death house, deathhouse, prison cell, house of detention, ward, cell, jail cell, death camp, saltbox, more...

Opposite:
life imprisonment, maximum security, general population

Types:
execution, capital punishment, death penalty, more...

Phrases:
On Death Row, Death Row Records, Death row phenomenon, Death Row Greatest Hits, Death Row Records discography, more...

Adjectives:
incarcerate, intern, captive, carceral, imprisonable, 5150, solitary, custodial, jailable, occupied, own

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Similar:
death chamber, death house, deathhouse, prison cell, house of detention, ward, cell, jail cell, death camp, saltbox, more...

Opposite:
life imprisonment, maximum security, general population

Types:
execution, capital punishment, death penalty, more...

Phrases:
On Death Row, Death Row Records, Death row phenomenon, Death Row Greatest Hits, Death Row Records discography, Christmas on Death Row, Live from Death Row, death row last meal, more...

Adjectives:
incarcerate, intern, captive, carceral, imprisonable, 5150, solitary, custodial, jailable, occupied, own



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