PRESENTMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does presentment mean? 

• PRESENTMENT (noun)
  The noun PRESENTMENT has 3 senses:

1. an accusation of crime made by a grand jury on its own initiative

2. a document that must be accepted and paid by another person

3. a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view

  Familiarity information: PRESENTMENT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRESENTMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An accusation of crime made by a grand jury on its own initiative

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

notification; presentment

Hypernyms ("presentment" is a kind of...):

due process; due process of law ((law) the administration of justice according to established rules and principles; based on the principle that a person cannot be deprived of life or liberty or property without appropriate legal procedures and safeguards)

Domain category:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

A document that must be accepted and paid by another person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("presentment" is a kind of...):

billing; charge (request for payment of a debt)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

demonstration; presentation; presentment

Context example:

he gave the customer a demonstration

Hypernyms ("presentment" is a kind of...):

show (the act of publicly exhibiting or entertaining)

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

exhibition (the act of exhibiting)

exposure (presentation to view in an open or public manner)

performance (the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment)

lecture demonstration (presentation of an example of what the lecturer is discoursing about)

counterdemonstration (a demonstration held in opposition to another demonstration)

Derivation:

present (represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture)

present (perform (a play), especially on a stage)

present (give an exhibition of to an interested audience)

 Context examples 

For the first time our eyes rested upon this presentment of the great emperor, which seemed to raise such frantic and destructive hatred in the mind of the unknown.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was worse when it began to be clothed upon with detestable attributes; and out of the shifting, insubstantial mists that had so long baffled his eye, there leaped up the sudden, definite presentment of a fiend.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)