allocutions
Meaning of allocutions
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.
Information about allocutions
- It is a name.
- The singular form of allocutions is: allocution.
- Languages in which allocutions is used:
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Hyphenation of allocutions
al-lo-cu-tions
- It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
- allocutions is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
Anagrams of allocutions
Words that rhyme with allocutions
ions, eccaleobions, excambions, gabions, symbions, Halcions, cions, coercions, epinicions, scions, suspicions, unsuspicions, accordions, collodions, diacodions, encheiridions, enchiridions, gammadions, melodions, pyramidions, rhipidions, stasidions, tordions, turdions, Legions, analogions, bioregions, contagions, euchologions, irreligions, legions, logions, regions, religions, subregions, tragions, trisagions, Malathions, antifashions, apocynthions, cushions, ethions, falchions, fashions, fauchions, faulchions, fenthions, fushions, gnathions, gumphions
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