Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun executive_clemency

1 sense of executive clemency

Sense 1
executive clemency -- (the power (usually of a president or governor) to pardon or commute the sentence of someone convicted in that jurisdiction)
       => office, power -- ((of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power; "being in office already gives a candidate a great advantage"; "during his first year in office"; "during his first year in power"; "the power of the president")