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PROVOST COURT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does provost court mean?
• PROVOST COURT (noun)
The noun PROVOST COURT has 1 sense:
1. a military court for trying people charged with minor offenses in an occupied area
Familiarity information: PROVOST COURT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A military court for trying people charged with minor offenses in an occupied area
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("provost court" 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)
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
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