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DRUMHEAD COURT-MARTIAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does drumhead court-martial mean?
• DRUMHEAD COURT-MARTIAL (noun)
The noun DRUMHEAD COURT-MARTIAL has 1 sense:
1. a military court convened to hear urgent charges of offenses committed in action
Familiarity information: DRUMHEAD COURT-MARTIAL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DRUMHEAD COURT-MARTIAL (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A military court convened to hear urgent charges of offenses committed in action
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("drumhead court-martial" is a kind of...):
court-martial (a military court to try members of the armed services who are accused of serious breaches of martial law)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
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