reargument - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

English reargument

From re- + argument.

reargument (countable and uncountable, plural rearguments)

  1. (law) The arguing of a legal case again.
    Hypernym: argument
    • 1976 April 10, Neil Miller, “U.S. Supreme Court Upholds State Sodomy Laws”, in Gay Community News, page 6:
      Voeller asserted that the National Gay Task Force, which initiated the Virginia case, planned to take the case back to the Supreme Court for re-argument.
    • 2008 January 19, Adam Liptak, “West Virginia Judge Steps Out of Case Involving a Travel Companion”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      They could set the entire appeal down for reargument, with or without a substitute justice.