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Pretrial

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A proceeding held before an official trial, especially to clarify points of law and facts.

adj. Of or relating to a pretrial.

adj. Existing or occurring before a trial: pretrial imprisonment; pretrial hearings.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Pertaining to a preliminary trial.

n. A preliminary trial held in advance of a court trial.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. (law) a conference held before the trial begins to bring the parties together to outline discovery proceedings and to define the issues to be tried; more useful in civil than in criminal cases

Word Usage

"And the reason for that visit was prompted because his immediate commander, his company commander, had placed him in what we call pretrial confinement."

Hypernym

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group discussion conference

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