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POLICE COURT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does police court mean?
• POLICE COURT (noun)
The noun POLICE COURT has 1 sense:
1. a court that has power to prosecute for minor offenses and to bind over for trial in a superior court anyone accused of serious offenses
Familiarity information: POLICE COURT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A court that has power to prosecute for minor offenses and to bind over for trial in a superior court anyone accused of serious offenses
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("police court" is a kind of...):
court; judicature; tribunal (an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Context examples
"You know what that means. You'll be in the police court yet."
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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