Verb (used with object) : to plea-bargain a reduced sentence.    From Dictionary.com. 

There's a plea-bargain prayer blowing in the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manner of Death]

Paul knows the DA's role in the plea-bargain process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warning Signs]

So really, we ` re talking a plea-bargain situation here.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 11, 2007] Reference

The convictions follow the plea-bargain sentencing on Monday of.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

"I will never plea-bargain with the truth," friends said he told them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Former NSA executive Thomas A. Drake may pay high price for media leak] Reference

Green had agreed to a plea-bargain deal but decided to fight the charge.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Green to stay in Green Bay] Reference

The only thing he 'executed' about Gary Leon Ridgway was a plea-bargain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sound Politics: Maleng will not seek death penalty for Haq] Reference

Probably was hoping he could plea-bargain me into the license plate factory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three to Get Deadly] Reference

Keenan had been the assistant DA who let Yukl plea-bargain six years earlier.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Piano Teacher] Reference

He later pleaded guilty under a plea-bargain to involvement in a coup attempt.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

His plea-bargain agreement includes three years 'probation and random drug testing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Going Hard To The Hoop] Reference

No more retroactive immunity, easy plea-bargain deals, or soft fines for bank crimes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard (RJ) Eskow: Fix Foreclosure Fraud With a Borrowers' Bill of Rights] Reference

KING: Mark, if you were representing the defendant, would you listen to a plea-bargain?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 6, 2009] Reference

And that he tried to plea-bargain most of the cases where he believed clients to be guilty.    From Wordnik.com.  [In His Own Defense]

Oh, Lucy Rabb would end up going to jail, but they would plea-bargain her sentence way down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fatal Care]

It is widely speculated that the five might have entered into a plea-bargain with the State.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

HARVEY LEVIN, TMZ: This just smells like they ` re trying to get a plea-bargain in this case.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 6, 2009] Reference

If you go to trial and lose, you usually get more time than that offered in the plea-bargain.    From Wordnik.com.  [What You Should Know If You're Accused of a Crime]

Prince was suspended, but re-instated after reaching a plea-bargain agreement with the council.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

I mean, I'd heard about public defenders and how they just try to get everyone to plea-bargain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lawman Lover]

No one can say now why he was allowed to plea-bargain his way down to an effective 10-year term.    From Wordnik.com.  [Too Dangerous To Set Free?] Reference

Perhaps lost in the shuffle by the plea-bargain is the remarkable ethics battle leading up to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

People close to the case say they would not be surprised if he uses what he knows to plea-bargain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unholy Communion] Reference

He'd already explored the chances of a plea-bargain; life imprisonment in exchange for information.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clear and Present Danger]

Manuel eventually cut a plea-bargain deal with prosecutors and was deported to Mexico in August 2006.    From Wordnik.com.  [ID Bust] Reference

There, because there are so many people accused of crimes, the courts have to plea-bargain cases down.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 14, 2007] Reference

This probably means that the prosecutors will plea-bargain generously -- or end up losing on most counts.    From Wordnik.com.  [End Of Their Rope] Reference

He had been unable to give a reasonable explanation for his possession of the device, the plea-bargain document said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

I don't get the impression, based on what Jerry's been saying so far, that he has any interest in a plea-bargain whatsoever.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 6, 2009] Reference

Their exact roles remain unclear, but their years of big-time trial experience will bolster Shapiro, a plea-bargain specialist.    From Wordnik.com.  ['He's Going Nuts.'] Reference

However, Vlok did say that as part of their plea-bargain, they would have to testify if more people were prosecuted by the National.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

He is, for example, now dealing with the consequences of his 1994 refusal to plea-bargain with former deputy attorney Webster Hubbell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Most Dangerous Man In Washington] Reference

Research by Van Vuuren and others at the Commission led to the introduction of plea-bargain legislation to the country four years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

PIRRO: Look, I mean, if David Letterman does anything in the near future, it's to try to get the DA to take a plea-bargain in this case.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 6, 2009] Reference