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Hostile Witness

Definition: Hostile Witness

Hostile Witness

Noun

1. A witness whose relationship to the opposing party is such that his or her testimony may be prejudiced against the opposing party; "a hostile witness can be asked leading questions and cross-examined".

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


Synonym: Hostile Witness

Synonym: adverse witness (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Hostile witness

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A witness who is called by and who testifies for the opposing party or, less fequently, who, when offering testimony adverse to the party who called him, may at request to the judge be termed a "hostile" witness, which means that the witness is then subject to direct questions in the form of a cross-examination.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hostile witness."

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Synonyms within Context: Hostile Witness

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Evidence

Witness, indicator, hostile witness; eyewitness, earwitness, material witness, state's evidence; deponent; sponsor; cojuror.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Hostile Witness

English words defined with "hostile witness": adverse witnesscross-examination. (references)

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Modern Usage: Hostile Witness

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Hostile Witness (1968)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hostile 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
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hostile witness

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Anagrams: Hostile Witness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-h-i-i-l-n-o-s-s-s-t-t-w"

-3 letters: wittinesses.

-4 letters: hessonites, holinesses, lintwhites, oilinesses, owlishness, siltstones, thelitises, tholeiites, whetstones, wilinesses.

-5 letters: essonites, hessonite, holsteins, honestest, honesties, hotnesses, lewisites, lewissons, lintwhite, lionesses, litheness, lownesses, noiseless, noisettes, sensitise, showiness, silentest, siltstone, sloshiest, stonishes, swishiest, telethons, tensities, teosintes, testiness, tholeiite, whetstone, whiteness, wholeness, wiseliest, witnesses, wittiness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Hostile Witness


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

48 6F 73 74 69 6C 65      57 69 74 6E 65 73 73

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

    

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

01001000 01101111 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101100 01100101 00100000 01010111 01101001 01110100 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#111 &#115 &#116 &#105 &#108 &#101 &#32 &#87 &#105 &#116 &#110 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 006F 0073 0074 0069 006C 0065      0057 0069 0074 006E 0065 0073 0073

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

42818586757871257758680718585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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