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subpoena

/suh-pee-nuh, suhb-/US // səˈpi nə, səb- //UK // (səbˈpiːnə, səˈpiːnə) //

传讯,传唤,传票,拘传

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    sub·poe·naed, sub·poe·na·ing.

    • : to serve with a subpoena.

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Examples

  • Earlier in the day, Johnson’s panel voted to authorize subpoenas in its probe targeting former Obama administration officials.

  • The new subpoena seeks those documents as well as another ethics opinion provided to Emanuel.

  • Intuit produced half a million pages of documents in response to the FTC’s first civil investigative demand — a kind of subpoena — last year.

  • A judge last week threw out the president’s lawsuit to block the subpoenas on the grounds that they were too broad.

  • With subpoenas arriving at NASA and Boeing, we have an idea of how serious this episode might become.

  • Henry Waxman did subpoena Condoleezza Rice, and she appeared once, in the fall of 2007.

  • Meanwhile, Wildstein is fighting a subpoena to appear before state legislators on Thursday.

  • On Wednesday, Airbnb filed a motion in New York State Supreme Court challenging the subpoena.

  • The House bill, introduced last Thursday, contains strong protection for leakers and probably would have prevented the subpoena.

  • Republicans, Fox News gloats, want Clinton to testify about Benghazi under subpoena.

  • There are others who are inclined towards elaborate plots as Sam Weller was to the "'rig'nal" of his subpoena.

  • In the interim he bought a ticket, supped, reflected, counted his money and studied the subpoena.

  • Saul Aronson's jaw dropped and the subpoena began to burn a hole in his pocket.

  • He was not familiar enough with law terms to know the limits of a subpoena's authority.

  • When he appeared yesterday before the Grand Jury it was under a subpoena.