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JUDICIAL REVIEW
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Review by a court of law of actions of a government official or entity or of some other legally appointed person or body or the review by an appellate court of the decision of a trial court
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("judicial review" is a kind of...):
review ((law) a judicial reexamination of the proceedings of a court (especially by an appellate court))
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)