at Her Majesty's pleasure

prep_phrase

Definitions

  1. Indefinitely

    Indefinitely; for an arbitrary period determined by the monarch or her government (especially for indefinite tenure or imprisonment).

    • The Governor serves at Her Majesty's pleasure.
    • The murderer was imprisoned at Her Majesty's pleasure.
  2. In prison.

    • He spent two years at Her Majesty's pleasure.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for at Her Majesty's pleasure. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA