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COURT-MARTIAL (court-martialled, court-martialling)
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, court-martialling Dictionary entry overview: What does court-martial mean?
• COURT-MARTIAL (noun)
The noun COURT-MARTIAL has 2 senses:
1. a military court to try members of the armed services who are accused of serious breaches of martial law
2. a trial that is conducted by a military court
Familiarity information: COURT-MARTIAL used as a noun is rare.
• COURT-MARTIAL (verb)
The verb COURT-MARTIAL has 1 sense:
1. subject to trial by court-martial
Familiarity information: COURT-MARTIAL used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A military court to try members of the armed services who are accused of serious breaches of martial law
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("court-martial" is a kind of...):
military court (a judicial court of commissioned officers for the discipline and punishment of military personnel)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "court-martial"):
drumhead court-martial (a military court convened to hear urgent charges of offenses committed in action)
special court-martial (a court-martial to try soldiers for offenses less serious that than those committed in action; consists of at least three officers)
Derivation:
court-martial (subject to trial by court-martial)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A trial that is conducted by a military court
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("court-martial" is a kind of...):
trial ((law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
military law (the body of laws and rules of conduct administered by military courts for the discipline, trial, and punishment of military personnel)
Derivation:
court-martial (subject to trial by court-martial)
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it court-martials Past simple: court-martialed
/ court-martialled Past participle: court-martialed
/ court-martialled -ing form: court-martialing
/ court-martialling Sense 1
Meaning:
Subject to trial by court-martial
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "court-martial" is one way to...):
adjudicate; judge; try (put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
court-martial (a trial that is conducted by a military court)
court-martial (a military court to try members of the armed services who are accused of serious breaches of martial law)
Context examples
The meanest sloop that ever sailed out of France would have overmatched her, and then it would be on me, and not on this Devonport bungler, that a court-martial would be called.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If this matter is not to become public, we must give ourselves certain powers and resolve ourselves into a small private court-martial.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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