adjudicated

[uh-joo-di-key-tid]

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.

verb

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

Other Word Forms

• misadjudicated adjective
• nonadjudicated adjective
• unadjudicated adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of adjudicated¹

adjudicate ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

He claimed her firing was “for cause,” a term whose precise legal meaning hasn’t been adjudicated but is widely interpreted to connote gross malfeasance or some such offense in office.

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

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It will take several years for the case to be adjudicated.

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“Until defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint is adjudicated, the parties agree not to engage in discovery,” the stipulation said.

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Vicky Waters, a probation department spokeswoman, said Gaddis was “not under active supervision” by the agency because his case had not been adjudicated yet.

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