special term
Americannoun
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the sitting of a court for the trial of a special case.
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the sitting of a court at an extraordinary time.
Example Sentences
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Pastor Valdinei uses a special term for what he sees happening in Brazil - conspirituality.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2022
China has a special term for companies like Evergrande: “gray rhinos,” so large and so entangled in the country’s financial system that the government has an interest in their survival.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2021
In fact, there’s a special term for a wedding poem: epithalamium.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 13, 2018
There ought to be a special term for this marriage of brain and brawn.
From Forbes ● Sep. 9, 2013
Crosslets are frequently blazoned semée over the field of a Shield, in which case the special term crusilly is often used; and, in smaller numbers, they 57 also are favourite Charges.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting
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