"witness box" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: witness boxes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} witness box (plural witness boxes)
  1. (chiefly British) A witness stand in a courtroom. Tags: British Categories (topical): Law Synonyms: witness stand [US] Hypernyms: box Translations (place where a witness gives evidence in a courtroom): 證人席 (Chinese Mandarin), 证人席 (zhèngrénxí) (Chinese Mandarin), getuigenbank [common-gender] (Dutch), getuigenbankje [neuter] (Dutch), vitnisbásur (Faroese), todistajanaitio (Finnish), clár na mionn [masculine] (Irish), vitneboks [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), vitneboks [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), tanık kürsüsü (Turkish)

Inflected forms

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