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BENCH WARRANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bench warrant mean? 

BENCH WARRANT (noun)
  The noun BENCH WARRANT has 1 sense:

1. a warrant authorizing law enforcement officials to apprehend an offender and bring that person to courtplay

  Familiarity information: BENCH WARRANT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BENCH WARRANT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A warrant authorizing law enforcement officials to apprehend an offender and bring that person to court

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

arrest warrant; bench warrant

Hypernyms ("bench warrant" is a kind of...):

warrant (a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bench warrant"):

pickup (a warrant to take someone into custody)


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