admiralty

American  

[ad-mer-uhl-tee] / ˈæd mər əl ti /

noun

admiralties plural

1. the office or jurisdiction of an admiral.

2. the officials or the department of state having charge of naval affairs, as in Great Britain.

3. a court dealing with maritime questions, offenses, etc.

4. maritime law.

5. the Admiralty, the official building, in London, of the British commissioners for naval affairs.

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adjective

1. of or relating to admiralty law.

admiralty British  

/ ˈædmərəltɪ /

noun

1. the office or jurisdiction of an admiral

2. 1. jurisdiction over naval affairs

   2. ( as modifier )

      admiralty law

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• admiralties
  plural

Etymology

Origin of admiralty

1300–50; Middle English amiralty < Middle French. See admiral, -ty ²

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

admiralty admiralties

But the judge questioned whether Congress can strip courts of their own admiralty jurisdiction over a shipwreck, something that has centuries of legal precedent.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2024

Colonists’ efforts to evade trade restrictions by smuggling were countered with laws that required smugglers be tried in admiralty courts, which lacked a jury.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

He reported his findings in confidence to the British admiralty, but they made their way into a newspaper.

From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2019

Indeed, in dozens of admiralty cases during the war, the federal courts performed their own evaluations of the facts and the law.

From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2019

Not until 1930, when a young Washington admiralty lawyer and keen hiker named Myron Avery took over the development of the project, did work actually begin, but suddenly it moved on apace.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

It bought and broadcast the content of secret radio war orders from the German and British admiralties to merchantmen at sea.

From Time Magazine Archive

As regards cruisers we shall soon have the Dunkerque, which foreign admiralties agree already must be considered the world's most powerful capital ship.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Not at all, no no!" boomed Herr Professor Oswald Flamm in Berlin last week, and the admiralties of the World listened for he ranks among the three greatest experts on subsea warfare.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is the reason why American headquarters in London, and the Allied admiralties, expected such a visitation.

From The Victory At Sea by Hendrick, Burton J.

Correspondingly we find that colonies are of more interest to general staffs and admiralties than to captains of industry.

From The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History by Partridge, G.E.