- a type of court with the authority to deal with a particular problem or disagreement
- an international war crimes tribunal
- a military tribunal
Extra Examples- He stood trial before an international tribunal.
- She told the tribunal that she was a victim of sex discrimination.
- She took her case to a tribunal.
- The case went to a tribunal.
- The disciplinary tribunal upheld an earlier ruling.
- The dispute was settled by a tribunal.
- The tribunal sentenced him to twenty years in prison.
- an employment tribunal claim
Word Originlate Middle English (denoting a seat for judges): from Old French, or from Latin tribunal ‘raised platform provided for magistrate's seats’, from tribunus, literally ‘head of a tribe’, from tribus ‘tribe’. The current sense dates from the early 20th cent.
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