Interlocutory

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Law Pronounced or decided during the course of an action or suit and merely temporary or provisional in nature: an interlocutory decree.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of or pertaining to dialogue or conversation.
  • adj. Interjected into something spoken.
  • adj. Expressed during a legal action that awaits final decision.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to legal action that is temporary or provisional.
  • n. A person engaged in a conversation, an interlocutor.
  • n. Interpolated discussion or dialogue.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Consisting of, or having the nature of, dialogue; conversational.
  • adj. Intermediate; not final or definitive; made or done during the progress of an action.
  • n. Interpolated discussion or dialogue.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Consisting in or partaking of the character of dialogue; pertaining to, characterized by, or participating in conversation; conversational: as, interlocutory instruction; an interlocutory encounter.
  • Spoken intermediately; interjected into the main course of speech; specifically, in law, uttered or promulgated incidentally; not determinative or final in purport: as, an interlocutory argument; an interlocutory order, decree, or judgment (that is, one relating to a particular question or point in a case, but not to the final issue).
  • In law, intermediately transacted; taking place apart from the main course of a cause.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. consisting of dialogue
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