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See Also:

• past tense form of subpoena.
• past participle of subpoena.

subpoenaed

American  

[suh-pee-nuhd, suhb-] / səˈpi nəd, səb- /

adjective

Law.

1. (of a witness or evidence) required by a subpoena to appear or be submitted before a court or other deliberative body.

   The subpoenaed recordings include over 33 hours of conversations, mostly between the defendant and his parents and brother.

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verb

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

Other Word Forms

• unsubpoenaed
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of subpoenaed

First recorded in 1840–45; subpoena + -ed ² ( def. ) for the adjective; subpoena + -ed ¹ ( def. ) for the verb

Example Sentences

Attorney’s Office in D.C. subpoenaed JPMorgan, Bank of America and others as part of a probe into alleged debanking.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 14, 2026

Cipriani’s lawyer subpoenaed entertainment and sports executive Ari Emanuel to get testimony to advance the beef.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

Football's governing body was subpoenaed to answer allegations of "artificially inflating prices" and "misleading fans".

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

He said his committee subpoenaed all of the files over the summer, and Bondi has yet to comply with that subpoena in violation of the law.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2026

You subpoenaed documents and took depositions and pored over court records until you had put together a detailed and precise accounting of each stage in the deadly quarrel.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell