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traɪˈbyun l, trɪ-tri·bunal

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. court, tribunal, judicaturenoun

    an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business

Wiktionary

  1. tribunalnoun

    An assembly including one or more judges to conduct judicial business; a court of law.

  2. Etymology: From tribunal, from tribunal

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Tribunalnoun

    Etymology: tribunal, Latin and French.

    I’ th’ market-place, on a tribunal silver’d,
    Cleopatra and himself in chairs of gold
    Were publickly enthron’d. William Shakespeare, Ant. and Cleopatra.

    He sees the room
    Where the whole nation does for justice come,
    Under whose large roof flourishes the gown,
    And judges grave on high tribunals frown. Edmund Waller.

    Here the tribunal stood. John Dryden, Æn.

    There is a necessity of standing at his tribunal, who is infinitely wise and just. Nehemiah Grew, Cosmol. b. iii.

    Summoning arch-angels to proclaim
    Thy dread tribunal. John Milton.

Wikipedia

  1. Tribunal

    A tribunal, generally, is any person or institution with authority to judge, adjudicate on, or determine claims or disputes—whether or not it is called a tribunal in its title. For example, an advocate who appears before a court with a single judge could describe that judge as "their tribunal." Many governmental bodies that are titled as "tribunals" are described so in order to emphasize that they are not courts of normal jurisdiction. For example, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda was a body specially constituted under international law; in Great Britain, employment tribunals are bodies set up to hear specific employment disputes. In many (but not all) cases, the word tribunal implies a judicial (or quasi-judicial) body with a lesser degree of formality than a court, in which the normal rules of evidence and procedure may not apply, and whose presiding officers are frequently neither judges, nor magistrates. Private judicial bodies are also often styled "tribunals." The word tribunal, however, is not conclusive of a body's function—for example, in Great Britain, the Employment Appeal Tribunal is a superior court of record. The term is derived from the tribunes, magistrates of the Classical Roman Republic. "Tribunal" originally referred to the office of the tribunes, and the term is still sometimes used in this sense in historical writings. The tribunal was the platform upon which the presiding authority sat; having a raised position physically as symbolic of his higher position in regard to the adjudication of the law.

ChatGPT

  1. tribunal

    A tribunal is a court or forum of justice such as a committee or board that has the authority to adjudicate or settle disputes and administrative matters. The term is generally used to refer to courts that deal with specialized or specific issues. Tribunals are typically established by a government, an organization, or an institution, to deal with problems that need objective and fair resolution.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Tribunalnoun

    the seat of a judge; the bench on which a judge and his associates sit for administering justice

  2. Tribunalnoun

    hence, a court or forum; as, the House of Lords, in England, is the highest tribunal in the kingdom

Wikidata

  1. Tribunal

    A tribunal in the general sense is any person or institution with the authority to judge, adjudicate on, or determine claims or disputes—whether or not it is called a tribunal in its title. For example, an advocate appearing before a court on which a single judge was sitting could describe that judge as 'their tribunal'. Many governmental bodies that are titled 'tribunals' are so described to emphasize the fact that they are not courts of normal jurisdiction. For example, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda is a body specially constituted under international law; in Great Britain, Employment Tribunals are bodies set up to hear specific employment disputes. Private judicial bodies are also often styled 'tribunals'. The word 'tribunal' is not conclusive of a body's function. For example, in Great Britain, the Employment Appeal Tribunal is a superior court of record. The term is originally derived from the tribunes, magistrates of the Classical Roman Republic. "Tribunal" originally referred to the office of the tribunes, and the term is still sometimes used in this sense in historical writings.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Tribunal

    trī-bū′nal, n. the bench on which a judge and his associates sit to administer justice: court of justice: the confessional. [L.]

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  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'tribunal' in Nouns Frequency: #1757

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  1. turbinal

  2. untribal

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tribunal in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of tribunal in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of tribunal in a Sentence

  1. The Dutch prime minister:

    A U.N. tribunal would have ensured that there was the broadest possible support for the prosecution process.

  2. Volodymyr Zelenskyy:

    To get what? Get Ukraine? It is impossible, this is not to be changed by missiles, bombs, tanks, any strikes. We are in our native land. And for the war against us there will be an International Tribunal for them.

  3. Shadi Sadr:

    More than 15 million viewers in Iran watched the live broadcasts of the [Aban Tribunal] hearings as they were covered by major Iranian media outlets in exile. It became the most watched event in Iran’s history of civil activism.

  4. Klaus Botzet:

    If we unanimously support that international law as formulated by the international tribunal in the Hague ... needs to be upheld, that’s a very strong message and will be very difficult to ignore.

  5. Lawrence Rosen:

    The settlement agreement contained an arbitration clause that permitted EC, LLC to seek an injunction in the event of a breach or threatened breach of the agreement, the designated judge from the arbitration tribunal found that Ms. Clifford had violated the agreement and enjoined her from, among other things, filing this lawsuit.

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