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judge-made

judge-made
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [juhj meyd]
    • /dʒʌdʒ meɪd/
    • /dʒʌdʒ meɪd/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [juhj meyd]
    • /dʒʌdʒ meɪd/

Definitions of judge-made word

  • adjective judge-made established by a court, as by an application or interpretation of a law that is allegedly contrary to the intentions of the enacting body or by a decision that does not rest on legislation. 1
  • adjective judge-made based on a judge's interpretation or decision (esp in the phrase judge-made law) 0
  • adjective judge-made made by judges or by their decisions, often, specif., through judicial interpretation which is thought of as circumventing legislative intent 0
  • adjective judge-made (sometimes derogatory) Created by judges or judicial decision; used especially of law applied or established by the judicial interpretation of statutes so as to extend or restrict their scope, as to meet new cases, to provide new or better remedies, etc. 0

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Parts of speech for Judge-made

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

judge-made popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 39% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

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