juvenile court

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   a court having jurisdiction over dependent and delinquent children

   Broadercourt

Questions about juvenile court

What does juvenile court mean?

juvenile court means "a court having jurisdiction over dependent and delinquent children".

Is juvenile court a common word?

juvenile court 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.