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What does acquittal mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word acquittal? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (now rare) The act of fulfilling the duties (of a given role, obligation etc.). [from 15th c.]
  2. (law) A legal decision that someone is not guilty with which they have been charged, or the formal dismissal of a charge by some other legal process. [from 15th c.]
  3. Payment of a debt or other obligation; reparations, amends. [from 15th c.]
  4. (now historical) The act of releasing someone from debt or other obligation; acquittance. [from 15th c.]
  5. (rare) Avoidance of danger; deliverance. [from 17th c.]
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But the juryman votes for acquittal anyway, reflecting that philosophers sometimes err.
Without witnesses testifying to the event, there would be reasonable doubt for an acquittal.
His relief at his own unanimous acquittal for handling was overshadowed by his stepson's conviction.
Yes, I accept that, but the test really is whether the appellant lost a fair chance of acquittal reasonably open to him.
With all the evidence against him and only a handful of character witnesses his lawyers say he has little chance of acquittal.
A higher court stayed his acquittal and ordered him detained while the finding at trial was reconsidered.

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