adjudication

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adiudicatio, adiudicationem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ə(d)ˌd͡ʒu.dɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

  Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

adjudication (countable and uncountable, plural adjudications)

1. The act of adjudicating, of reaching a judgement.
   • 1984 February 4, Franklin Kameny, quotee, “A Call For Reorganization”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 2:

     All too often nowadays, in the majority of cases, the commissioners have no familiarity at all with the case decided in their names, and do not even read the order they sign. Thus, the entire procedure of adjudication by the commission has become a farce and a travesty, which has outlived its usefulness.

2. A judgment or sentence.
   • 16 June, 1784, Edmund Burke, speech on reform of representation in the House of Commons

     An adjudication in favour of natural rights.

   • 2007 June 17, Houston Chronicle:

     [Mr. C.] says he confessed to avoid a lengthier sentence after his original attorney told him that the prosecutor claimed DNA evidence conclusively identified him as the attacker. [Mr. C.] had an earlier deferred adjudication for indecency with a minor.

3. (law) The decision upon the question of whether the debtor is a bankrupt.
   • 1869, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, A Treatise Upon the United States Courts, and Their Practice:

     In case two or more petitions for adjudication of bankruptcy shall be filed in different districts by different members of the same copartnership for an adjudication of the bankruptcy of said copartnership , the court in which the petition is first filed having jurisdiction […]

4. (emergency response) The process of identifying the type of material or device that set off an alarm and assessing the potential threat with corresponding implications for the need to take further action.
5. (law, Scotland) A process by which land is attached as security or in satisfaction of a debt.

Derived terms

• adjudicational
• nonadjudication
• readjudication
• self-adjudication

Related terms

• adjudicate
• adjudicator

Translations

judgment

• Arabic: فَصْل فِي دَعْوَى m (faṣl fī daʕwā), حُكُم (ar) m (ḥukum)
• Bulgarian: отсъждане (bg) (otsǎždane), присъждане (bg) (prisǎždane)
• Dutch: vonnis (nl)
• Finnish: tuomio (fi)
• French: jugement (fr) m, adjudication (fr) f
• Georgian: სასამართლო გადაწყვეტილება (sasamartlo gadac̣q̇veṭileba), განაჩენი (ganačeni)
• Greek: εκδίκαση (el) f (ekdíkasi)
• Portuguese: adjudicação (pt) f

References

• “adjudication, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adiūdicātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.dʒy.di.ka.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

adjudication f (plural adjudications)

1. auction
2. adjudication

Derived terms

• adjudicataire

Related terms

• adjuger

Further reading

• “adjudication”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.