"oral argument" meaning in English

See oral argument in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: oral arguments [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} oral argument (plural oral arguments)
  1. (law) A portion of a legal proceeding wherein the attorneys present their argument by speaking directly to the judge and answering the judge's questions. Categories (topical): Law
    Sense id: en-oral_argument-en-noun-SqqOpTbd Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: law

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for oral argument meaning in English (1.2kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "oral arguments",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "oral argument (plural oral arguments)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Law",
          "orig": "en:Law",
          "parents": [
            "Justice",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A portion of a legal proceeding wherein the attorneys present their argument by speaking directly to the judge and answering the judge's questions."
      ],
      "id": "en-oral_argument-en-noun-SqqOpTbd",
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law#English"
        ],
        [
          "portion",
          "portion"
        ],
        [
          "legal",
          "legal"
        ],
        [
          "proceeding",
          "proceeding"
        ],
        [
          "attorney",
          "attorney"
        ],
        [
          "argument",
          "argument"
        ],
        [
          "judge",
          "judge"
        ],
        [
          "answer",
          "answer"
        ],
        [
          "question",
          "question"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(law) A portion of a legal proceeding wherein the attorneys present their argument by speaking directly to the judge and answering the judge's questions."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "oral argument"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "oral arguments",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "oral argument (plural oral arguments)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "en:Law"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A portion of a legal proceeding wherein the attorneys present their argument by speaking directly to the judge and answering the judge's questions."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law#English"
        ],
        [
          "portion",
          "portion"
        ],
        [
          "legal",
          "legal"
        ],
        [
          "proceeding",
          "proceeding"
        ],
        [
          "attorney",
          "attorney"
        ],
        [
          "argument",
          "argument"
        ],
        [
          "judge",
          "judge"
        ],
        [
          "answer",
          "answer"
        ],
        [
          "question",
          "question"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(law) A portion of a legal proceeding wherein the attorneys present their argument by speaking directly to the judge and answering the judge's questions."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "oral argument"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.