EGAVE

appeal

About 30.19 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun An application to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned. The legal document or form by which such an application is made; also, the court case in which the application is argued. A person's legal right to apply to court for such a review.
    I have an appeal against the lower court decision.
  2. noun An application to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
  3. noun The legal document or form by which such an application is made; also, the court case in which the application is argued.
  4. noun A person's legal right to apply to court for such a review.
    I have an appeal against the lower court decision.
  5. noun An accusation or charge against someone for wrongdoing (especially treason).
  6. noun A process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offence against the public; an accusation.
  7. noun At common law, an accusation made against a felon by one of their accomplices (called an approver).
  8. noun A call to a person or an authority for a decision, help, or proof; an entreaty, an invocation.
    He made an appeal for volunteers to help at the festival.

Similar words

solicitation entreaty invoke collection prayer charm appealingness attract ingathering appellate

Often followed by

to of for from is in was and against

Word family

appealabilities appealability appealable appealed appealer appealers appealing appeals

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