Antonyms for adjudication


Grammar : Noun
Spell : uh-joo-di-key-shuh n
Phonetic Transcription : əˌdʒu dɪˈkeɪ ʃən


Definition of adjudication

Origin :
  • 1690s, from French adjudication or directly from Late Latin adjudicationem (nominative adjudicatio), noun of action from past participle stem of adjudicare (see adjudge).
  • noun judgment
Example sentences :
  • I put it to you, then: can any one suppose that all, or any, of these may dispense with adjudication?
  • Extract from : « The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians » by Xenophon
  • Lester's own relationship to the business would have to come up for adjudication.
  • Extract from : « Jennie Gerhardt » by Theodore Dreiser
  • The claims against France, since 1800, are now in the course of adjudication.
  • Extract from : « Thirty Years' View (Vol. I of 2) » by Thomas Hart Benton
  • By so doing he hopes to secure her voice in his favour at the adjudication of the prize.
  • Extract from : « The Story of Nuremberg » by Cecil Headlam
  • Power to Court to call on Captors to proceed to Adjudication.
  • Extract from : « International Law. A Treatise. Volume II (of 2) » by Lassa Francis Oppenheim
  • The captor should bring his prize into port for adjudication by the court.
  • Extract from : « International Law » by George Grafton Wilson and George Fox Tucker
  • After filing a voluntary petition the judge makes an adjudication.
  • Extract from : « Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman » by Albert Sidney Bolles
  • Never has been put forward such a doctrine for adjudication since the days of Ogden and Smith, tried in this city in 1806.
  • Extract from : « Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York » by A. F. Warburton
  • Then you are confident of the adjudication being in your favour?
  • Extract from : « The Lancashire Witches » by William Harrison Ainsworth
  • No man who loves his country would sanction violence in the adjudication of rights save as a last resort.
  • Extract from : « Black and White » by Timothy Thomas Fortune

Synonyms for adjudication

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