ALLOCUTION
/alษ(ส)หkjuหสษn/
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Scrabble
17
WWF
A(1) L(1) L(1) O(1) C(3) U(1) T(1) I(1) O(1) N(1)
NWL/TWL ✓ Collins ✓ WWF ✓
Definition
/alษ(ส)หkjuหสษn/
noun
- A formal speech, especially one which is regarded as authoritative and forceful.
- The question put to a convicted defendant by a judge after the rendering of the verdict in a trial, in which the defendant is asked whether he or she wishes to make a statement to the court before sentencing; the statement made by a defendant in response to such a question; the legal right of a defendant to make such a statement.
- The legal right of a victim, in some jurisdictions, to make a statement to a court prior to sentencing of a defendant convicted of a crime causing injury to that victim; the actual statement made to a court by a victim.
- A pronouncement by a pope to an assembly of church officials concerning a matter of church policy.
- (communications) The mode of information dissemination in which media broadcasts are transmitted to multiple receivers with no or very limited capability of a two-way exchange of information.
Source: Wiktionary
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