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DRUMHEAD COURT-MARTIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drumhead court-martial mean? 

DRUMHEAD COURT-MARTIAL (noun)
  The noun DRUMHEAD COURT-MARTIAL has 1 sense:

1. a military court convened to hear urgent charges of offenses committed in actionplay

  Familiarity information: DRUMHEAD COURT-MARTIAL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DRUMHEAD COURT-MARTIAL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A military court convened to hear urgent charges of offenses committed in action

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("drumhead court-martial" is a kind of...):

court-martial (a military court to try members of the armed services who are accused of serious breaches of martial law)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)


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