Translate court-martial | into French | into Spanish 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.