n :  a conditional release given to a psychiatric patient in a hospital before discharge enabling the patient to visit freely various designated areas on the hospital grounds or beyond its limits pa*rol*able adj parole vt pa*roled  pa*rol*ing  
 
 
 
Similar sounding terms:  pa·rol·ee  pearl  perle  pu·er·ile 
 
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