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noun
information received from other people that one cannot adequately substantiate; rumor:according to hearsay, Bob had managed to break his arm Law the report of another person’s words by a witness, usually disallowed as evidence in a court of law:everything they had told him would have been ruled out as hearsay [as modifier]:hearsay evidence
