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{
"term": "tribunal",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "a type of court with the authority to deal with a particular problem or disagreement",
"examples": [
{
"text": "an international war crimes tribunal"
},
{
"text": "a military tribunal"
},
{
"text": "He stood trial before an international tribunal."
},
{
"text": "She told the tribunal that she was a victim of sex discrimination."
},
{
"text": "She took her case to a tribunal."
},
{
"text": "The case went to a tribunal."
},
{
"text": "The disciplinary tribunal upheld an earlier ruling."
},
{
"text": "The dispute was settled by a tribunal."
},
{
"text": "The tribunal sentenced him to twenty years in prison."
},
{
"text": "an employment tribunal claim"
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/traɪˈbjuːnl/",
"audio": "tr/tribunal/tribunal__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/traɪˈbjuːnl/",
"audio": "tr/tribunal/tribunal__us_1_rr.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English (denoting a seat for judges): from Old French, or from Latin tribunal ‘raised platform provided for magistrate's seats’, from tribunus, literally ‘head of a tribe’, from tribus ‘tribe’. The current sense dates from the early 20th cent."
}