adjudication
pronunciation
How to pronounce adjudication in British English:
UK [əˌdʒu:dɪ'keɪʃn]
How to pronounce adjudication in American English:
US [əˌdʒudɪ'keɪʃn]
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- Noun:
- the final judgment in a legal proceeding; the act of pronouncing judgment based on the evidence presented
Word Origin
- adjudication (n.)
- 1690s, from French adjudication or directly from Late Latin adiudicationem (nominative adiudicatio), noun of action from past participle stem of adiudicare (see adjudge).
Example
- 1. We have , therefore , in the highly sensitive area of trade a quasi-judicial system of adjudication that is objective .
- 2. People close to the government say japan might accept adjudication by the international court of justice , but only if china were to request it .
- 3. So , in theory , civil adjudication could stop altogether , as it already has on one judicial circuit in georgia .
- 4. And for all the time , energy , and money spent on big trust-busting lawsuits , they are frequently useless by the time the adjudication has been completed .
- 5. As in the system of criminal justice , n17 the courts have been expected to deal with only a small proportion of the cases that arise . N18 court-based adjudication is just one of several types of processes that may be used in china as a check on administrative decision making .