court-ordered

1. 1.

   ordered by a court of law

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Questions about court-ordered

What does court-ordered mean?

court-ordered means "ordered by a court of law".

How many syllables are in court-ordered?

court-ordered has 3 syllables and divides as cour-t-or-dered under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is court-ordered a common word?

court-ordered is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.