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adj
- of or relating to jurisprudence
- Relating to the law or to lawyers.
- established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules
- allowed by official rules
- having legal efficacy or force
- relating to or characteristic of the profession of law
- Being established, permitted, required or prescribed by law.
- Following the rules or syntax of a system, such as a game or a programming language.
- Having its basis in the law.
- (informal) Above the age of consent or the legal drinking age.
- (Philippines) Of paper or document layouts, measuring 8+¹⁄₂ × 13 inches (216 × 330 mm).
- Permitting the use and/or sale of cannabis; in which cannabis is lawful.
- (Canada, US) Of paper or document layouts, measuring 8+¹⁄₂ × 14 inches (216 × 356 mm).
noun
- (uncountable, informal) The legal department of a company or organization.
- (countable) A spy who is attached to, and ostensibly employed by, an embassy, military outpost, etc.
- (countable, informal, US) One who immigrated lawfully.
- (uncountable, Canada, US) A paper sheet or document measuring 8+¹⁄₂ × 14 inches (216 × 356 mm).
noun
- (law, by extension) The case presented by the defendant in a legal proceeding.
- (law, by extension) The lawyer or team thereof who presents such a case.
- An argument in support or justification of something.
- (team sports) A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.
- The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury.
- (government, military, euphemistic) Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.
- (team sports) The portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.
- the defendant and their legal advisors collectively
- (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring
- a structure used to defend against attack
- the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury
- an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack
- protection from harm
- (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies
- a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against them
- the justification for some act or belief
- the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions
- (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
verb
adj
- (law) Liable to the legal authority of (something).
- Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
- Willing to comply; easily led.
- Liable to be brought to account, to a charge or claim; responsible; accountable; answerable.
- (mathematics, of a group) Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.
- liable to answer to a higher authority
- responsive to suggestions and influences
- open to being acted upon in a certain way
- disposed or willing to conform
verb
- (law) To state; to allege.
- (military) To point; to aim.
- To present or offer.
- simple past of lie (“to be oriented in a horizontal position, situated”)
- (printing) To place (new type) properly in the cases.
- (nautical) To take a position; to come or go.
- To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
- To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
- To produce and deposit an egg or eggs.
- To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
- (of e.g. wind) To subside or abate.
- To bet (that something is or is not the case).
- To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
- (proscribed, see usage notes) To lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
- To impute; to charge; to allege.
- To produce and deposit (an egg or eggs).
- (slang) To have sex with.
- (Judaism, transitive) To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).
- To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
- To apply; to put.
- (ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
- (printing) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
- put in a horizontal position
- put into a certain place or abstract location
- prepare or position for action or operation
- impose as a duty, burden, or punishment
- lay eggs
adj
noun
- A share of the profits in a business.
- A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
- Arrangement or relationship; layout.
- (colloquial) A casual sexual partner.
- A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.
- The laying of eggs.
- (colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
- A lake.
- The direction a rope is twisted.
- a narrative song with a recurrent refrain
- a narrative poem of popular origin
noun
- (law) Basis or justification for something.
- The collective land areas that compose a larger area.
- The sediment at the bottom of a liquid, or from which a liquid has been filtered.
- plural of ground
- your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief
- the enclosed land around a house or other building
- a justification for something existing or happening
- a tract of land cleared for some special purposes (recreation or burial etc.)
- dregs consisting of solid particles (especially of coffee) that form a residue
verb
noun
- (law) A legal fiction.
- (literature) Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
- A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead).
- a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
- a deliberately false or improbable account
noun
- (law) Part of a pleading in cases of libel and slander, pointing out what and who was meant by the libellous matter or description.
- A remark that is suggestive of something sexual without stating it explicitly.
- (logic) A rhetorical device with an omitted, but obvious conclusion, made to increase the force of an argument.
- A derogatory hint or reference to, or (often sexual) insinuation about, a person or thing.
- an indirect (and usually malicious) implication
verb
noun
- (of a law) having legal validity
- a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
- the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- an outward appearance
- a symptom caused by an illness or a drug
- an impression (especially one that is artificial or contrived)
- (sound engineering) An alteration, or device for producing an alteration, in sound after it has been produced by an instrument.
- Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
- (sciences) A scientific phenomenon, usually named after its discoverer.
- (cinematography, computer graphics, demoscene) An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect")
- The result or outcome of a cause.
- Execution; performance; realization; operation.
- (usually in the plural) Belongings, usually as personal effects.
- (sciences, statistics) An influence or causal association between two variables.
- Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; with to.
- (uncountable) The state of being binding and enforceable, as in a rule, policy, or law.
verb
noun
- (of a law) having legal validity
- a group of people having the power of effective action
- physical energy or intensity
- group of people willing to obey orders
- one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
- (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity
- a unit that is part of some military service
- a powerful effect or influence
- a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base
- an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)
- (mass noun, possibly proscribed) Force understood as something of which there can be an amount.
- (usually with "the", in the singular or plural) Synonym of police force.
- (linguistics, semantics, pragmatics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, ...) to effect a given meaning.
- (law, uncountable) The state of having legal weight, of being legally valid,.
- (financial mathematics, actuarial science) The annualized instantaneous rate of change at a particular timepoint.
- (countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.
- Something or anything that has the power to produce a physical effect upon something else, such as causing it to move or change shape.
- Ability to influence; strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
- (in the singular or plural) Military personnel, collectively, including any vehicles, ships, or aircraft. More broadly, the military or police altogether.
- (countable) A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving the apparent free choice of a card by another person.
- (countable) An instance of a physical force.
- (humorous or science fiction, with the, often capitalized) A metaphysical and ubiquitous power from the fictional Star Wars universe created by George Lucas. See usage note.
- Any large, organized group involved in a military engagement.
- (countable) A particular form or type of force.
- (countable) Something that exerts influence.
- (countable) Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing.
- (when in reference to that which it affects) Something that, over time, influences a system with which it interacts (with a connotation of underlyingness, subtlety, or indirectness).
- (uncountable) The generalized abstraction of this concept.
- (law) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
- (countable) A group organized for the goal of attacking, controlling, or constraining, especially one with a set command structure (in particular, a military or police group).
- (uncountable) Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
verb
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
- to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means
- impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably
- take by force
- do forcibly; exert force
- move with force
- urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
- squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
- (transitive, baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground.
- (transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
- (transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
- (transitive) To make someone or something do something, often regardless of their will.
- To stuff; to lard; to farce.
- (whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
- To grow (rhubarb) in the dark, causing it to grow early.
- To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
- (transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
- (transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
- (transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape.
verb
- (transitive, law) To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).
- (transitive) To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard.
- (cricket) Mostly in tests. The action of not putting force into hitting a shot, but to conserve energy and wear down bowlers so they can attack later.
- (sports) To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing on scoring.
- (poker slang) To call a raise from the big blind.
- (sports) To attempt to retain a title, or attempt to reach the same stage in a competition as one did in the previous instance of that competition.
- (transitive) To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of.
- argue or speak in defense of
- be the defense counsel for someone in a trial
- be on the defensive; act against an attack
- protect against a challenge or attack
- state or assert
- protect or fight for as a champion
- fight against or resist strongly
noun
verb
- (transitive, law) To submit (a physical object) to a court as evidence.
- (transitive) To display or show (something) for others to see, especially at an exhibition or contest.
- (transitive) To demonstrate.
- (intransitive) To put on a public display.
- (medicine) To administer as a remedy.
- show an attribute, property, knowledge, or skill
- walk ostentatiously
- give an exhibition of to an interested audience
- to show, make visible or apparent
verb
noun
- (law) A common law prerogative writ that compels a court or government officer to perform mandatory or purely ministerial duties correctly.
- an extraordinary writ commanding an official to perform a ministerial act that the law recognizes as an absolute duty and not a matter for the official's discretion; used only when all other judicial remedies fail
noun
- (law) Alternative form of parol.
- (with on) Originally, one's oath or word of honour, given as a condition of release from custody; now specifically, describing the release of a former prisoner under certain conditions, especially the promise of good behaviour.
- (US, immigration law) The permission for a foreigner who does not meet the technical requirements for a visa to be allowed to enter the U.S. on humanitarian grounds.
- (now historical) A word of honor, especially given by a prisoner of war, to not engage in combat if released.
- (linguistics) Language in use, as opposed to language as a system.
- Conditional release of a prisoner (now especially before the end of a custodial sentence), or the term or state of such release; the system governing such releases.
- a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group
- a promise
- (law) a conditional release from imprisonment that entitles the person to serve the remainder of the sentence outside the prison as long as the terms of release are complied with
verb
noun
- (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it
- the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
- the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision
- an opinion formed by judging something
- the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event
- the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
- the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions
- (chiefly Commonwealth) Alternative spelling of judgment.
noun
- (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it
- the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
- the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision
- an opinion formed by judging something
- the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event
- the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
- the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions
- (law) The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge.
- The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely.
- The act of judging.
- (theology) The final award; the last sentence.
- The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
verb
noun
- A pact or binding agreement between two or more parties.
- An incidental clause in an agreement.
- (law) A promise, incidental to a deed or contract, either express or implied.
- (law) An agreement to do or not do a particular thing.
- a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action
- (Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return
prep_phrase
noun
- (law, by extension) The case presented by the defendant in a legal proceeding.
- (law, by extension) The lawyer or team thereof who presents such a case.
- An argument in support or justification of something.
- (team sports) A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.
- The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury.
- (government, military, euphemistic) Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.
- (team sports) The portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.
- the defendant and their legal advisors collectively
- (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring
- a structure used to defend against attack
- the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury
- an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack
- protection from harm
- (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies
- a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against them
- the justification for some act or belief
- the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions
- (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
verb
noun
- (law) Basis or justification for something.
- The collective land areas that compose a larger area.
- The sediment at the bottom of a liquid, or from which a liquid has been filtered.
- plural of ground
- your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief
- the enclosed land around a house or other building
- a justification for something existing or happening
- a tract of land cleared for some special purposes (recreation or burial etc.)
- dregs consisting of solid particles (especially of coffee) that form a residue
verb
noun
- (law) A legal fiction.
- (literature) Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
- A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead).
- a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
- a deliberately false or improbable account
noun
- (law) Part of a pleading in cases of libel and slander, pointing out what and who was meant by the libellous matter or description.
- A remark that is suggestive of something sexual without stating it explicitly.
- (logic) A rhetorical device with an omitted, but obvious conclusion, made to increase the force of an argument.
- A derogatory hint or reference to, or (often sexual) insinuation about, a person or thing.
- an indirect (and usually malicious) implication
verb
noun
- (of a law) having legal validity
- a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
- the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- an outward appearance
- a symptom caused by an illness or a drug
- an impression (especially one that is artificial or contrived)
- (sound engineering) An alteration, or device for producing an alteration, in sound after it has been produced by an instrument.
- Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
- (sciences) A scientific phenomenon, usually named after its discoverer.
- (cinematography, computer graphics, demoscene) An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect")
- The result or outcome of a cause.
- Execution; performance; realization; operation.
- (usually in the plural) Belongings, usually as personal effects.
- (sciences, statistics) An influence or causal association between two variables.
- Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; with to.
- (uncountable) The state of being binding and enforceable, as in a rule, policy, or law.
verb
noun
- (of a law) having legal validity
- a group of people having the power of effective action
- physical energy or intensity
- group of people willing to obey orders
- one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
- (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity
- a unit that is part of some military service
- a powerful effect or influence
- a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base
- an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)
- (mass noun, possibly proscribed) Force understood as something of which there can be an amount.
- (usually with "the", in the singular or plural) Synonym of police force.
- (linguistics, semantics, pragmatics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, ...) to effect a given meaning.
- (law, uncountable) The state of having legal weight, of being legally valid,.
- (financial mathematics, actuarial science) The annualized instantaneous rate of change at a particular timepoint.
- (countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.
- Something or anything that has the power to produce a physical effect upon something else, such as causing it to move or change shape.
- Ability to influence; strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
- (in the singular or plural) Military personnel, collectively, including any vehicles, ships, or aircraft. More broadly, the military or police altogether.
- (countable) A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving the apparent free choice of a card by another person.
- (countable) An instance of a physical force.
- (humorous or science fiction, with the, often capitalized) A metaphysical and ubiquitous power from the fictional Star Wars universe created by George Lucas. See usage note.
- Any large, organized group involved in a military engagement.
- (countable) A particular form or type of force.
- (countable) Something that exerts influence.
- (countable) Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing.
- (when in reference to that which it affects) Something that, over time, influences a system with which it interacts (with a connotation of underlyingness, subtlety, or indirectness).
- (uncountable) The generalized abstraction of this concept.
- (law) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
- (countable) A group organized for the goal of attacking, controlling, or constraining, especially one with a set command structure (in particular, a military or police group).
- (uncountable) Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
verb
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
- to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means
- impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably
- take by force
- do forcibly; exert force
- move with force
- urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
- squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
- (transitive, baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground.
- (transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
- (transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
- (transitive) To make someone or something do something, often regardless of their will.
- To stuff; to lard; to farce.
- (whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
- To grow (rhubarb) in the dark, causing it to grow early.
- To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
- (transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
- (transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
- (transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape.
noun
verb
- (transitive, law) To submit (a physical object) to a court as evidence.
- (transitive) To display or show (something) for others to see, especially at an exhibition or contest.
- (transitive) To demonstrate.
- (intransitive) To put on a public display.
- (medicine) To administer as a remedy.
- show an attribute, property, knowledge, or skill
- walk ostentatiously
- give an exhibition of to an interested audience
- to show, make visible or apparent
noun
- (law) Alternative form of parol.
- (with on) Originally, one's oath or word of honour, given as a condition of release from custody; now specifically, describing the release of a former prisoner under certain conditions, especially the promise of good behaviour.
- (US, immigration law) The permission for a foreigner who does not meet the technical requirements for a visa to be allowed to enter the U.S. on humanitarian grounds.
- (now historical) A word of honor, especially given by a prisoner of war, to not engage in combat if released.
- (linguistics) Language in use, as opposed to language as a system.
- Conditional release of a prisoner (now especially before the end of a custodial sentence), or the term or state of such release; the system governing such releases.
- a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group
- a promise
- (law) a conditional release from imprisonment that entitles the person to serve the remainder of the sentence outside the prison as long as the terms of release are complied with
verb
noun
- (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it
- the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
- the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision
- an opinion formed by judging something
- the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event
- the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
- the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions
- (chiefly Commonwealth) Alternative spelling of judgment.
noun
- (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it
- the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
- the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision
- an opinion formed by judging something
- the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event
- the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
- the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions
- (law) The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge.
- The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely.
- The act of judging.
- (theology) The final award; the last sentence.
- The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
verb
- (law) To state; to allege.
- (military) To point; to aim.
- To present or offer.
- simple past of lie (“to be oriented in a horizontal position, situated”)
- (printing) To place (new type) properly in the cases.
- (nautical) To take a position; to come or go.
- To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
- To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
- To produce and deposit an egg or eggs.
- To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
- (of e.g. wind) To subside or abate.
- To bet (that something is or is not the case).
- To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
- (proscribed, see usage notes) To lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
- To impute; to charge; to allege.
- To produce and deposit (an egg or eggs).
- (slang) To have sex with.
- (Judaism, transitive) To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).
- To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
- To apply; to put.
- (ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
- (printing) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
- put in a horizontal position
- put into a certain place or abstract location
- prepare or position for action or operation
- impose as a duty, burden, or punishment
- lay eggs
adj
noun
- A share of the profits in a business.
- A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
- Arrangement or relationship; layout.
- (colloquial) A casual sexual partner.
- A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.
- The laying of eggs.
- (colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
- A lake.
- The direction a rope is twisted.
- a narrative song with a recurrent refrain
- a narrative poem of popular origin
verb
- (transitive, law) To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).
- (transitive) To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard.
- (cricket) Mostly in tests. The action of not putting force into hitting a shot, but to conserve energy and wear down bowlers so they can attack later.
- (sports) To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing on scoring.
- (poker slang) To call a raise from the big blind.
- (sports) To attempt to retain a title, or attempt to reach the same stage in a competition as one did in the previous instance of that competition.
- (transitive) To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of.
- argue or speak in defense of
- be the defense counsel for someone in a trial
- be on the defensive; act against an attack
- protect against a challenge or attack
- state or assert
- protect or fight for as a champion
- fight against or resist strongly
verb
noun
- (law) A common law prerogative writ that compels a court or government officer to perform mandatory or purely ministerial duties correctly.
- an extraordinary writ commanding an official to perform a ministerial act that the law recognizes as an absolute duty and not a matter for the official's discretion; used only when all other judicial remedies fail
verb
noun
- A pact or binding agreement between two or more parties.
- An incidental clause in an agreement.
- (law) A promise, incidental to a deed or contract, either express or implied.
- (law) An agreement to do or not do a particular thing.
- a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action
- (Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return
noun
verb
- (transitive, law) To submit (a physical object) to a court as evidence.
- (transitive) To display or show (something) for others to see, especially at an exhibition or contest.
- (transitive) To demonstrate.
- (intransitive) To put on a public display.
- (medicine) To administer as a remedy.
- show an attribute, property, knowledge, or skill
- walk ostentatiously
- give an exhibition of to an interested audience
- to show, make visible or apparent
adj
- of or relating to jurisprudence
- Relating to the law or to lawyers.
- established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules
- allowed by official rules
- having legal efficacy or force
- relating to or characteristic of the profession of law
- Being established, permitted, required or prescribed by law.
- Following the rules or syntax of a system, such as a game or a programming language.
- Having its basis in the law.
- (informal) Above the age of consent or the legal drinking age.
- (Philippines) Of paper or document layouts, measuring 8+¹⁄₂ × 13 inches (216 × 330 mm).
- Permitting the use and/or sale of cannabis; in which cannabis is lawful.
- (Canada, US) Of paper or document layouts, measuring 8+¹⁄₂ × 14 inches (216 × 356 mm).
noun
- (uncountable, informal) The legal department of a company or organization.
- (countable) A spy who is attached to, and ostensibly employed by, an embassy, military outpost, etc.
- (countable, informal, US) One who immigrated lawfully.
- (uncountable, Canada, US) A paper sheet or document measuring 8+¹⁄₂ × 14 inches (216 × 356 mm).
adj
- (law) Liable to the legal authority of (something).
- Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
- Willing to comply; easily led.
- Liable to be brought to account, to a charge or claim; responsible; accountable; answerable.
- (mathematics, of a group) Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.
- liable to answer to a higher authority
- responsive to suggestions and influences
- open to being acted upon in a certain way
- disposed or willing to conform