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JUDICIAL BRANCH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The branch of the United States government responsible for the administration of justice
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("judicial branch" is a kind of...):
arm; branch; subdivision (a division of some larger or more complex organization)
Meronyms (members of "judicial branch"):
circuit court of appeals (one of the twelve federal United States courts of appeals that cover a group of states known as a 'circuit')
Supreme Court; Supreme Court of the United States; United States Supreme Court (the highest federal court in the United States; has final appellate jurisdiction and has jurisdiction over all other courts in the nation)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Holonyms ("judicial branch" is a member of...):
U.S.; U.S. government; United States; United States government; US Government (the executive and legislative and judicial branches of the federal government of the United States)
