Court-martial Definition

kôrtmärshəl
court-martialed, court-martialing, court-martialled, court-martialling, court-martials, courts-martial
noun
A court of personnel in the armed forces for the trial of persons accused of breaking military law.
Webster's New World
A trial by a court-martial.
Webster's New World
A conviction by a court-martial.
Webster's New World
An ad hoc military court whose judges are commissioned officers of higher rank than, and of the same branch of the armed services as, the accused. This court is convened to try a member of the armed services who is accused of violating the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Webster's New World Law
verb
To try by a court-martial.
Webster's New World
To convict by a court-martial.
Webster's New World
To subject to trial in a military court.
Wiktionary

To bring court martial proceedings against someone.

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Other Word Forms of Court-martial

Noun

Singular:
court-martial
Plural:
courts-martial

Origin of Court-martial

  • From martial court

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • court + martial

    From Wiktionary

Court-martial Sentence Examples

  • His management of the war, more especially on Lake Champlain, was severely criticized, and he was threatened with a court-martial, but died before the trial came on.

  • A court martial stripped him of his military rank.

  • O'Reilly was arrested at Dublin, where his regiment was then quartered, tried by court-martial for concealing his knowledge of an impending mutiny, and sentenced to be shot, but the sentence was subsequently commuted to twenty years' penal servitude.

  • Byng was brought home, tried by court-martial, condemned to death, and shot on the 14th of March 1757 at Portsmouth.

  • After the war of independence he was tried by court-martial, but acquitted.

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