Subpoena

Definition: Subpoena

Subpoena

Noun

1. A writ issued by court authority to compel the attendance of a witness at a judicial proceeding; disobedience may be punishable as a contempt of court.

Verb

1. Serve or summon with a subpoena; "The witness and her records were subpoenaed".

Date "subpoena" was first used: 15th century. (references)

Domain	Definition
Law	A command to a witness to appear and give testimony. (references)
Literature	Subpoena is a writ given to a man commanding him to appear in court, to bear witness or give evidence on a certain trial named in the writ. It is so called because the party summoned is bound to appear sub poena centum librorum (under a penalty of 100). We have the verb to subpoena. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A Subpoena is a writ commanding a person to appear under penalty (from the Latin). It is used to compel the testimony of individuals to a trial. Usually it can be issued by a judge or by the lawyer representing the plaintiff or the defendant in a civil trial or by the prosecutor or the defence attorney in a criminal proceeding. The United States Congress also has the power to issue subpoenas and can punish individuals who fail to comply by contempt of Congress, which is similar to contempt of court. It has its source in British common law and it is now used almost with universal application throughout the Anglo-American common law world.

Synonym: Subpoena

Synonym: subpoena ad testificandum (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Command	Dictation; dictate, mandate; caveat, decree, senatus consultum; precept; prescript, rescript; writ, ordination, bull, ex cathedra pronouncement, edict, decretal, dispensation, prescription, brevet, placit, ukase, ukaz, firman, hatti-sherif, warrant, passport, mittimus, mandamus, summons, subpoena, nisi prius, interpellation, citation; word, word of command; mot d'ordre; bugle call, trumpet call; beat of drum, tattoo; order of the day; enactment; (law); plebiscite; (choice).
	Cite, summon; call for, send for; subpoena; beckon.
Lawsuit	Writ, summons, subpoena, latitat, nisi prius; venire, venire facias
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Subpoena

English words defined with "subpoena": account book ♦ book, book of account ♦ compulsory process ♦ ledger, leger ♦ Subpena, Subpoenaed, Subpoenaing. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You think I can't subpoena Markinson? (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) Avoiding a subpoena is not liking to travel. (Baby Blues; writing credit: Neal Boushell; Leonard Dick)
Movie/TV Titles	The Subpoena Server (1906)
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Domain	Title
Books	A meeting to vote on the subpoena of Defense Department and other witnesses : meeting before the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, second session, Sep (reference) Meetings, to subpoena appearance of employees of the Department of Justice and the FBI and to subpoena production of documents from Rockwell International Corporation : meetings before the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on S (reference) Subpoena George Bush (reference) Testimony from Hon. Robert Mosbacher, Secretary of Commerce, re: compliance with subcommittee subpoena : hearing before the Subcommittee on Census and Population of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seco (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Abie the agent. This is a subpoena - this "Spike" Slammer is suing you for the $10,000 reward money. Credit: Library of Congress.		Grand Jury subpoena, U.S. District Court : you are hereby commanded to appear before the Grand Jury ... Credit: Library of Congress.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Jamaica	The opposition leader refused to comply with a subpoena to testify, on grounds that the Commission discriminated against him. (references)
	Uganda	Under the Constitution, the UHRC may subpoena information and order the release of detainees and the payment of compensation for abuses. (references)
	Paraguay	It does not have subpoena or prosecutorial power, but the commission may forward information concerning human rights abuses to the Attorney General for action. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Rush Limbaugh	They've joined with the federal government in trying to eviscerate our rights, yet we're supposed to be outraged at this subpoena against the media.
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"Subpoena" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 69.23% of the time. "Subpoena" is used about 39 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	69.23%	27	66,962
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	28.21%	11	106,044
Lexical Verb (base form)	2.56%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	39	N/A

Expressions using "subpoena": subpoena ad testificandum ♦ subpoena duces tecum ♦ writ of subpoena. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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.

Language		Translations for "subpoena"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		thirrje (appeal, call, calling, citation, convocation, cry, ejaculation, exclamation, muster, outcry, proclamation, shout, summons, whoop). (various references)

Arabic		‏مذكرة إحضار للمحكمة, ‏إستدعى للمحكمة (summon smb. to appear), ‏دعوة للمحكمة (citation, process). (various references)

Bulgarian		призовка (citation, praecipe, summons, writ), призовавам с призовка. (various references)

Chinese		� 票 (Subpena), 傳訊 (summon for interrogation). (various references)

Czech		soudní obsílka, předvolat soudní obsílkou. (various references)

Farsi		حکم احضار, احضاریه . (various references)

French		citer � comparaître, citation pour le témoin, assigner � comparaître (to summon to appear), assignation pour le témoin, assignation � témoin (subpoena ad test, subpoena ad testificandum, summons to witness), assignation (summons). (various references)

German		vorladen (summon, summons, to subpoena, to summon). (various references)

Greek		κλητεύω (arraign, cite, summon), κλήση (arraignment, call, calling, evisceration, evocation, summons), κλήτευση (citation), καλώ εισ το δικαστήριο. (various references)

Hungarian		megidézés (conjuration, summons). (various references)

Indonesian		mengetengahkan (set forth, summon), mendakwa (accuse). (various references)

Italian		citazione (adduction, cit, citation, complaint, extract, mention, monition, quotation, quote, summons). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		出� �命令 (order requiring somebody to report personally), 召喚状 (call, summons). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しゅっとうめいれい (order requiring somebody to report personally), しょうか�"じょう (call, summons). (various references)

Korean		소환장 (Subpena). (various references)

Manx		symney screeuee, cur symney screeuee da. (various references)

Pig Latin		ubpoenasay

Portuguese		intimação (daresay, intimation, monition, summons, ultimatum), citação (adduction, arraignment, citation, commonplace, cross-reference, excerption, intimation, mention, monition, notification, quotation, quote, reference, summons). (various references)

Romanian		somaţie (call, challenge, summons, writ), citaţie (citation, peremptory writ, summons, writ, writ of subpoena). (various references)

Russian		повестка (writ). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sudski poziv, pozvati na sud (cite, process). (various references)

Spanish		comparendo, citación (citation, mention, quotation, summon, summons), apercibimiento. (various references)

Swedish		kalla inför rätta. (various references)

Turkish		mahkeme çağrısı (subpena), mahkeme çağırmak (subpena), celp kâğıdı (citation, subpena, summons). (various references)

Ukrainian		викликати в суд (summons), повістка до суду. (various references)

Vietnamese		trát đòi hầu to� . (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	sub. (various references)
Medieval Latin	700-1500	sub poena. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "subpoena": subpoenaed, subpoenaing, subpoenas. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Subpoena" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Subono, subpaena, subpenoa, subpeona, subpoen, subpoenae, subpoenea, subpoened, subpoenia, subpoeno, subpoens, subpoerna, subpona, subpone, subponea, sunpoena, supboena, supoena. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "subpoena" (pronounced supē"nu)
4	-p ē" n u	Pina.
3	-ē" n u	arena, ballerina, cantina, catena, concertina, Farina, galena, hyena, Marina, Mina, patina, Regina, Salina, vena, verbena, Vina.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-n-o-p-s-u"
	-1 letter: subpena.
	-2 letters: beanos, paeons.
	-3 letters: abuse, aeons, aspen, banes, beano, beans, beaus, bones, bonus, bosun, bouse, ebons, nabes, napes, neaps, opens, paeon, panes, paseo, pause, peans, peons, pones, psoae, pubes, punas, sneap, spean, usnea.
	-4 letters: abos, aeon, anes, anus, apes, apse, bane, bans, baps, base, bean, beau, bens, boas, bone, bops, buns, ebon, eons.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-n-o-p-s-u"
	+1 letter: subpoenas.
	+2 letters: subpoenaed.
	+3 letters: paperbounds, subpoenaing, superabound, unstoppable.
	+4 letters: superabounds.
	+5 letters: insupportable, perturbations, postdebutante, protuberances, superabounded, tablespoonful, unemployables, unsupportable.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
subpoena	186	sample subpoena	3
subpoena duces tecum	32	get subpoena	3
subpoena form	18	motion quash subpoena	3
enron gramm subpoena testimony wendy	11	medical record subpoena	3
guaranteed subpoena	6	federal subpoena	3
court subpoena	6	state subpoena	3
hipaa and subpoena	5	file subpoena	2
serving a subpoena	5	oregon subpoena	2
deposition subpoena	5	grand jury subpoena	2
subpoena and law	5	criminal subpoena	2
definition subpoena	4	subpoena texas	2
poa subpoena	4	california form subpoena	2
subpoena document	4	subpoena for record	2
phone record subpoena	4	prosecutors subpoena	2
serve subpoena	4	federal subpoena form	2
witness subpoena	4	obtain a subpoena	2
bank record subpoena	3	civil subpoena	2
subpoena service	3	florida subpoena	2
information subpoena	3	duces form subpoena tecum	2
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Subpoena

Definition: Subpoena

Subpoena

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Anagrams: Subpoena

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