adjudicated

American  

[uh-joo-di-key-tid] / əˈdʒu dɪˌkeɪ tɪd /

adjective

1. settled, determined, or decreed judicially.

   The adjudicated amount must be paid by the stipulated due date.

2. submitted to judicial process.

   Media coverage that might enhance the status of an adjudicated youth is discouraged.

   Most of the adjudicated lands showed no sign of anyone ever possessing or working them.

3. (of a contest) judged by one or more experts.

   The choral group attends a retreat in the fall and participates in an adjudicated music festival in the spring.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of adjudicate.

Other Word Forms

• misadjudicated adjective
• nonadjudicated adjective
• unadjudicated adjective

Etymology

Origin of adjudicated

adjudicate ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

“It could be adjudicated expeditiously, or it could be just determining that they also agree that there was no criminal intent in the chair’s testimony at the banking committee that I participated in,” he said.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 30, 2026

How contract modifications will be adjudicated is also unclear.

From Barron's • Jan. 7, 2026

Rodriguez, who has been on the bench since 2003, first used AI experimentally to see how it would have adjudicated a seven-week trial he had recently completed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

A White House official told the BBC that all individuals deported have had their asylum claims fully adjudicated before removal.

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025

Joe had been brought to court and adjudicated on a single occasion, when he was twelve years old.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson