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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