appellate

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
17
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/əˈpɛlət/(UK)

Definition of appellate

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)That can be (legally) appealed to, especially of a court that hears appeals of decisions by a lower court.
    “In this game of bluff and counter-bluff, the parlementaires calculated that their absence – which entailed much of the country being without an appellate jurisdiction – would force the government to treat for terms.”

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Etymology

From Latin appellātus.

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