remand

1. 1.

   the act of sending an accused person back into custody to await trial (or the continuation of the trial)

   Broaderreturn

Other forms of remand

plural

remands·

past tense

remanded·

present participle

remanding·

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 remand

What does remand mean?

remand means "refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in remand?

remand has 2 syllables: re-mand. The stress falls on "mand". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈmænd/.

What is another word for remand?

Close synonyms include remit, send back, imprison, incarcerate, lag. 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 remand a common word?

remand is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 remand?

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