circuit court of appeals

1. 1.

   one of the twelve federal United States courts of appeals that cover a group of states known as a `circuit'

   Broaderappellate court

   Part ofjudicial branch

   law

Questions about circuit court of appeals

What does circuit court of appeals mean?

circuit court of appeals means "one of the twelve federal United States courts of appeals that cover a group of states known as a `circuit'".

Is circuit court of appeals a common word?

circuit court of appeals is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.