tribunal

[ trahy-byoon-l, tri- ]

/ traɪˈbyun l, trɪ- /

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noun

a court of justice.

a place or seat of judgment.

Also called tribune. a raised platform for the seats of magistrates, as in an ancient Roman basilica.

Nearby words

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Origin of tribunal

1520–30; < Latin tribūnal, tribūnāle judgment seat, equivalent to tribūn(us) tribune¹ + -āl(e) -al²

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Examples from the Web for tribunal

Wesolowski is confined to house arrest in the walled city, awaiting trial in front of the Vatican tribunal.
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Committee Chairman Ed Royce called for a tribunal to be established to hold the Assad regime accountable for war crimes.
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Zia, in bed with the Islamists who were being dispatched to the gallows by the tribunal, found her appeal ebbing.
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An act of parliament was passed in 1973 to set up a tribunal with jurisdiction to punish the perpetrators of the genocide.
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Participating in this tribunal rewards players while cutting down on negativity.
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The same moderation was exhibited by the tribunal of Toledo, in a curious case, in 1659.
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At any rate, this is a new light on things: the influence of big shops on the tribunal of penance!
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This system vested authority in the people through annual elections of a tribunal of three of their number.
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The tribunal collected some other evidence against Vergara and industriously searched for more, even as far as Flanders.
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The bare appearance of this tribunal has long been odious and revolting to the majority of the colonists.
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British Dictionary definitions for tribunal

tribunal

/ (traɪˈbjuːnəl, trɪ-) /

noun

a court of justice or any place where justice is administered

(in Britain) a special court, convened by the government to inquire into a specific matter

a raised platform containing the seat of a judge or magistrate, originally that in a Roman basilica

Word Origin for tribunal

C16: from Latin tribūnus tribune 1

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