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say it: pree-ZENT-muhnt
presentment is a noun meaning "an accusation of crime made by a grand jury on its own initiative". It carries 3 recorded senses.
an accusation of crime made by a grand jury on its own initiative
law
a document that must be accepted and paid by another person
a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view
“the presentation of new data”
“he gave the customer a demonstration”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for presentment come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.