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PRETRIAL CONFERENCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(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
Synonyms:
pretrial; pretrial conference
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("pretrial conference" is a kind of...):
conference; group discussion (a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
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