recusation

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

   Synonymsrecusal

   Broaderdisqualification

   law

2. 2.

   (law) an objection grounded on the judge's relationship to one of the parties

   Broaderobjection

   law

Other forms of recusation

plural

recusations·

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 recusation

What does recusation mean?

recusation 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". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in recusation?

recusation has 5 syllables: re-cu-sa-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for recusation?

Close synonyms include recusal. 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 recusation a common word?

recusation 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.