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court-martial

Syllabification: (court-mar·tial)
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Definition of court-martial

noun (plural courts-martial or court-martials)

  • a judicial court for trying members of the armed services accused of offenses against military law:they appeared before a court-martial he was found guilty by court-martial

verb (court-martials, court-martialing, court-martialed ; Britishcourt-martials, court-martialling, court-martialled)

[with object]
  • try (someone) by a court-martial.

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