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Definition of court 1 in English English dictionary

A court is an area in which you play a game such as tennis, basketball, badminton, or squash. The hotel has several tennis and squash courts She watched a few of the games while waiting to go on court

If a legal matter is decided or settled out of court, it is decided without legal action being taken in a court of (Hukuk) a payment of two million pounds in an out of court settlement

A court is a place where legal matters are decided by a judge and jury or by a magistrate. At this rate, we could find ourselves in the divorce courts! a county court judge He was deported on a court order following a conviction for armed robbery The 28-year-old striker was in court last week for breaking a rival player's jaw

You can refer to the people in a court, especially the judge, jury, or magistrates, as a court. A court at Tampa, Florida has convicted five officials on drugs charges

If you go to court or take someone to court, you take legal action against them. They have received at least twenty thousand pounds each but had gone to court to demand more. members of trade associations who want to take bad debtors to court

If someone holds court in a place, they are surrounded by a lot of people who are paying them a lot of attention because they are interesting or famous. in the days when Marlene Dietrich and Ernest Hemingway held court in the famous El Floridita club

The court of a king or queen is the place where he or she lives and carries out ceremonial or administrative duties. She came to visit England, where she was presented at the court of James I see also Crown Court, High Court, kangaroo court

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