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Answer for the clue "Court call ", 7 letters:
summons
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Word definitions for summons in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"authoritative call to be at a certain place for a certain purpose," late 13c., from Old French sumunse , noun use of fem. past participle of somondre (see summon (v.)). As a verb from 1650s.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB answer ▪ Anyone who failed to answer the summons was liable to be beaten. ▪ Not to answer the summons made matters worse, as it had always done, and particularly if it concerned a mortgage. ▪ She had all but crawled ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Summons \Sum"mons\, v. t. To summon. [R. or Colloq.] --Swift.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Legally, a summons (also known in England and Wales as a claim form and in the Australian state of New South Wales as a Court Attendance Notice (CAN) ) is a legal document issued by a court (a judicial summons ) or by an administrative agency of government ...
Usage examples of summons.
If anyone could call up demons any time they wanted, the demons would get highly pissed off and stroppy and work out ways to counteract the summonses.
Sands Point headquarters of the greaseballs, with the Task Force monitoring the summonses and subsequent telephone conversations.
And then Nest would call for her mother, and Eleanor would go and invent some strange story about the summonses Edward had had to Caernarvon assizes, or to Harlech cattle market.
Two other summonses were issued against me, and before I knew what was going on a warrant was issued for my arrest.
It was a standard practice—with some quite unstan-dard variations—for the women of the saishan to use their castrates to give them physical release if too much time went by between summonses to the other wing.
No drunk arrests--the Lincoln Heights drunk tank had flooded during the recent heavy rains--and lots of traffic summonses.
Robot clerks tick off the fines paid and send out summonses to defaulters.
Not sure you couldn't be summonsed for libel, or slander, or something.
Then there are the two summonses to appear before the Commissioners next Thursday.
The two summonses to appear before the Commissioners were not particularly serious.
The summonses were issued when the Inland Revenue thought a particular set of accounts was long overdue: a sort of goad to action.
The two summonses in question had arrived after Trevor had left for his holidays, which was why he hadn’t dealt with them himself.
Over eight thousand summonses went out, but the SS has contracted with the Rcichsbahn, the German railroad company, for exactly seven thousand five hundred transportees.
A transport official, the same redheaded man who distributed summonses, tells them that they are now "the reserve.
Sinnall answered and satisfied several official summonses before he made a turn into a pattern at the Central Barracks landing field.