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COURT OF APPEALS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A court whose jurisdiction is to review decisions of lower courts or agencies
Synonyms:
appeals court; appellate court; court of appeals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("court of appeals" is a kind of...):
court; judicature; tribunal (an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "court of appeals"):
circuit court of appeals (one of the twelve federal United States courts of appeals that cover a group of states known as a 'circuit')