provost court

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   a military court for trying people charged with minor offenses in an occupied area

   Broadermilitary court

   military · law

Questions about provost court

What does provost court mean?

provost court means "a military court for trying people charged with minor offenses in an occupied area".

Is provost court a common word?

provost 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.