PROVOST COURT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A military court for trying people charged with minor offenses in an occupied area

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("provost court" is a kind of...):

military court (a judicial court of commissioned officers for the discipline and punishment of military personnel)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

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