subpoena

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I - noun

a writ issued by court authority to compel the attendance of a witness at a judicial proceeding;
disobedience may be punishable as a contempt of court
• Syn:
subpoena ad testificandum
• Topics:
law, jurisprudence
• Hypernyms:
writ, judicial writ

II - verb

serve or summon with a subpoena (Freq. 1)
- The witness and her records were subpoenaed
• Hypernyms:
serve, process, swear out
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody