recusal

1. 1.

   (law) the disqualification of a judge or jury by reason of prejudice or conflict of interest; a judge can be recused by objections of either party or judges can disqualify themselves

   Synonymsrecusation

   Broaderdisqualification

   law

Other forms of recusal

plural

recusals·

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.

Questions about recusal

What does recusal mean?

recusal means "(law) the disqualification of a judge or jury by reason of prejudice or conflict of interest; a judge can be recused by objections of either party or judges can disqualify themselves".

How many syllables are in recusal?

recusal has 3 syllables: re-cu-sal. The stress falls on "cu". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈkjuzəl/.

What is another word for recusal?

Close synonyms include recusation. 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 recusal a common word?

recusal 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.