CROSS-QUESTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cross-question mean? 

• CROSS-QUESTION (noun)
  The noun CROSS-QUESTION has 1 sense:

1. a question asked in cross-examination

  Familiarity information: CROSS-QUESTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CROSS-QUESTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A question asked in cross-examination

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("cross-question" is a kind of...):

interrogation; interrogative; interrogative sentence; question (a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply)

Holonyms ("cross-question" is a part of...):

cross-examination ((law) close questioning of a hostile witness in a court of law to discredit or throw a new light on the testimony already provided in direct examination)

Derivation:

cross question (question closely, or question a witness that has already been questioned by the opposing side)

 Context examples 

But to run here and run there, to cross-question railway guards, and lie on my face with a lens to my eye—it is not my metier.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)