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Definition of judicial adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

judicial

adjective
 
 
/dʒuˈdɪʃl/
 
/dʒuˈdɪʃl/
[usually before noun]
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  1. connected with a court, a judge or legal judgement
    • judicial powers
    • the judicial process/system
    • Greenpeace applied for a judicial review to challenge the court’s decision.
    • The Supreme Court ordered a judicial inquiry into the deaths.
    Topics Law and justicec1
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryJudicial is used with these nouns:
    • appointment
    • approval
    • authority
    • …
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    Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin judicialis, from judicium ‘judgement’, from judex, judic-, from jus ‘law’ + dicere ‘to say’.
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