pretrial

What does pretrial mean?

pretrial means "(law) a conference held before the trial begins to bring the parties together to outline discovery proceedings and to define the issues to be tried; more useful in civil than in criminal cases".

How many syllables are in pretrial?

pretrial has 3 syllables: pre-tri-al. The stress falls on "tri". In IPA it is /pɹiˈtɹaɪəl/.

What is another word for pretrial?

Close synonyms include pretrial conference. 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 pretrial a common word?

pretrial 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.

What rhymes with pretrial?

2 words rhyme with pretrial. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pretrial 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.