"police court" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: police courts [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} police court (plural police courts)
  1. (law) A court of justice for trying small cases brought before it by the police. Wikipedia link: police court Categories (topical): Law, Law enforcement
    Sense id: en-police_court-en-noun-kKD2~SJH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: law

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 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.

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