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Expert Witness

Definition: Expert Witness

Expert Witness

Noun

1. A witness who has knowledge not normally possessed by the average person concerning the topic that he is to testify about.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Antonym: lay witness (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Expert Witness

English words defined with "expert witness": lay witness. (references)
Specialty definitions using "expert witness": crime laboratory analystfalse testimony by an expert witness, FIRE-INVESTIGATION LIEUTENANTMANAGER, LAND SURVEYINGperjury by an expert witness, police chemisSTAFF TOXICOLOGIST. (references)

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Modern Usage: Expert Witness

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Death of an Expert Witness (1983)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Expert Witness

DomainTitle

Books

  • Expert Witness Handbook: Tips and Techniques for the Litigation Consultant (reference)

  • Patriarchy: Notes of an Expert Witness (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Cross-Examination: How to Be an Effective and Ethical Expert Witness (reference)

  • P.D. James - Death of an Expert Witness (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expressions: Expert Witness

Expressions using "expert witness": false testimony by an expert witness perjury by an expert witness. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Expert Witness

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  expert witness

665

  medical expert witness

223

  expert witness testimony

53

  expert witness hydrogeology

20

  forensic expert witness

14

  expert witness computer

14

  security expert witness

10

  environmental expert witness

9

  california expert witness

9

  expert witness service

9

  expert witness directory

8

  psychiatric expert witness

8

  arrest expert witness

6

  expert witness in hydrogeology

4

  psychiatry expert witness

3

  california expert witness testimony

3

  toxicology expert witness

2

  discredited expert witness

2

  expert witness toxicologist

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Expert Witness

Language Translations for "expert witness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

faux rapport (false testimony by an expert witness, perjury by an expert witness). (various references)

   

German

  

falsches Gutachten (false testimony by an expert witness, perjury by an expert witness). (various references)

   

Italian

  

falsa perizia (false testimony by an expert witness, perjury by an expert witness). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

expertay itnessway

   

Turkish

  

bilirkişi (authority, expert, friend of the court, referee, surveyor, valuator, valuer). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Expert Witness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-i-n-p-r-s-s-t-t-w-x"

-2 letters: preexistent.

-3 letters: expertises, expertness, intersexes, persistent, petiteness, pinsetters, presentist, prettiness, streetwise, westernise.

-4 letters: eternises, existents, expertise, inexperts, insetters, interests, pettiness, pinsetter, preexists, pretenses, sternites, sweepiest, teensiest, teentsier, triteness, weensiest, winepress.

-5 letters: eeriness, entwists, epeeists, erepsins, eserines, eternise, existent, expenses, externes, inexpert, insetter, interest, intersex, nereises, newsiest, pensters, pertness, pestiest, preexist, presents, preteens, pretense, pretests.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Expert Witness


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 78 70 65 72 74      57 69 74 6E 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01111000 01110000 01100101 01110010 01110100 00100000 01010111 01101001 01110100 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#120 &#112 &#101 &#114 &#116 &#32 &#87 &#105 &#116 &#110 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0078 0070 0065 0072 0074      0057 0069 0074 006E 0065 0073 0073

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

399082718486257758680718585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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