adj
Meaning 1
Pertaining to a preliminary trial.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
pretrial
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/pɹɪˈtɹaɪəl/
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adj
Meaning 2
Before a trial.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A preliminary trial held in advance of a court trial.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
Examples
- As a result, another pretrial review was to be held on 17 February.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
(law) a conference held before the trial begins to bring the parties together to outline discovery proceedings and to define the issues to be tried; more useful in civil than in criminal cases
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pretrial conference
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: conference, group discussion
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh2- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh2i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English trial English pretrial From pre- + trial.
Across languages
Translations
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: предварително производство (predvaritelno proizvodstvo) — a preliminary trial held in advance of a court trial
- Chinese Mandarin: 預審 /预审 (yùshěn) — a preliminary trial held in advance of a court trial
- Indonesian: praperadilan — a preliminary trial held in advance of a court trial
- Italian: predibattimento — a preliminary trial held in advance of a court trial
- Japanese: 予審 (yoshin) — a preliminary trial held in advance of a court trial
- Korean: 예심 (yesim) — a preliminary trial held in advance of a court trial
- Malay: prabicara — a preliminary trial held in advance of a court trial
- Polish: przedprocesowy — a preliminary trial held in advance of a court trial