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MILITARY COURT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A judicial court of commissioned officers for the discipline and punishment of military personnel
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("military court" is a kind of...):
court; judicature; tribunal (an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "military court"):
court-martial (a military court to try members of the armed services who are accused of serious breaches of martial law)
provost court (a military court for trying people charged with minor offenses in an occupied area)