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say it: ri-KAH-nuh-zuhns
recognizance is a noun meaning "(law) a security entered into before a court with a condition to perform some act required by law; on failure to perform that act a sum is forfeited". It carries one recorded sense.
(law) a security entered into before a court with a condition to perform some act required by law; on failure to perform that act a sum is forfeited
law
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 recognizance 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.