lower court

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   any court whose decisions can be appealed to a higher court

   Synonymsinferior court

   Broadercourt

Questions about lower court

What does lower court mean?

lower court means "any court whose decisions can be appealed to a higher court".

What is another word for lower court?

Close synonyms include inferior court. 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 lower court a common word?

lower 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.