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COURT

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court I. substantiv

1. (şi courtyard) curte, ogradă, bătătură.

2. fundătură; pasaj.

3. uliţă îngustă şi murdară (în Londra).

4. curte, palat;

to hold a court a organiza o recepţie la curte.

5. (jur.) judecătorie, tribunal, instanţă (judecătorească); (amer.) judecător, judecători;

Supreme Court curte supremă;

court of justice, law court tribunal;

prize court Curte de Conturi care decide în materie de capturi şi bunuri ridicate;

Court of Appeal(s) curte de apel;

Court of Equity Curte de Echitate;

Court of Chancery v. Chancery;

High Court of Justice Înalta Curte de Justiţie;

High Court of Parliament Adunarea Corpurilor Legiuitoare;

(amer.) General Court a) adunare legislativă; b) şedinţă a Adunării legislative;

(amer.) kangaroo court înscenare / mascaradă judiciară, parodie de judecată;

to be out of court a) a pierde dreptul de a fi audiat; b) (fig.) a-şi pierde forţa / validitatea;

this book is now out of court cartea asta s-a învechit.

6. (amer.) conducere, administrare, dirijare (a unei întreprinderi).

7. (sport) teren de joc (mai ales de tenis).

8. curte;

to make / to pay court to smb. a face curte cuiva.

court II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a curta, a face curte (cuiva), a căuta / a umbla ca să ia în căsătorie; a peţi.

2. a se linguşi / gudura pe lângă; a se da bine pe lângă (cineva); a se băga pe sub pielea (cuiva);

3. a vâna, a căuta cu lumânarea;

to court disaster a căuta o nenorocire (cu tot dinadinsul).

court II. verb B. intranzitiv

a face curte, a flirta.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

The case would then never go into court at all.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I drove to Walworth and found, with some difficulty, Potter's Court.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

By day he and all his court were lions, but in the evening they took their right forms again.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

If you are in court over a dispute or to enforce a contract, you are likely to win big.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

This alone puts the lady’s story out of court.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My father and the rest of the family being obliged to attend as witnesses, I accompanied them to the court.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

There are many of us who do that, Nigel, said Chandos, and the head of the court is, I dare warrant, among them.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yes, let us go to the Five’s Court.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am sure Wickham would like a place at court very much, and I do not think we shall have quite money enough to live upon without some help.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and present was certain of giving.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

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