judgment on the merits

1. 1.

   judgment rendered through analysis and adjudication of the factual issues presented

   Synonymsjudgement on the merits

   Broaderjudgment

   law

Questions about judgment on the merits

What does judgment on the merits mean?

judgment on the merits means "judgment rendered through analysis and adjudication of the factual issues presented".

What is another word for judgment on the merits?

Close synonyms include judgement on the merits. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is judgment on the merits a common word?

judgment on the merits 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.