MATERIAL WITNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does material witness mean? 

• MATERIAL WITNESS (noun)
  The noun MATERIAL WITNESS has 1 sense:

1. a witness whose testimony is both relevant to the matter at issue and required in order to resolve the matter

  Familiarity information: MATERIAL WITNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MATERIAL WITNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A witness whose testimony is both relevant to the matter at issue and required in order to resolve the matter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("material witness" is a kind of...):

witness ((law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law)

 Context examples 

That one dint in the short, green grass was the only material witness left of this inexplicable nocturnal flight.

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