POLICE COURT

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A court that has power to prosecute for minor offenses and to bind over for trial in a superior court anyone accused of serious offenses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("police court" is a kind of...):

court; judicature; tribunal (an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

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