Summons synonyms
sŭm'ənz
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Part of speech:
(Law) A judicial writ authorizing an officer to make a search, seizure, or arrest or to execute a judgment.
The definition of a subpoena is a written legal order telling someone to come to court.
The written order of a court in the name of the state or other legal authority ordering the person addressed to either do something or restrain from doing something.
The definition of a cry is a shedding of tears or a calling out.
indictment (related)
A charge made by a grand jury against a defendant.
call (related)
A telephone communication or connection.
The letter, form, etc. used to convey such a notice
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An occupation, profession, or career.
Requisition is an official order claiming or demanding property or materials or demanding the performance of a duty.
The act of placing a bid.
To order, as by a summons, to appear in court
Rally is defined as to come together for a common purpose, to bring back, or to rise in price or score.
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To put through a roll call
The definition of cite is to show your source of information.
To enlist and organize:
To assemble, marshal, or coordinate for a purpose:
To belong to or form a group:
To pick, pluck, or collect by picking; harvest
To call together.
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To cause to assemble, or meet together
To call for and obtain payment of:
(Intransitive) To form a cluster or group.
To call is to make a sound intended to attract a person's attention, or is when an animal makes a special sound to attract other animals, or to use the telephone to contact someone.
To gather into a group; collect
To serve as justification or reasonable grounds for (an act, belief, etc.)
Under penalty. A writ issued by a court commanding a person to appear, with penalties that attach for failure to comply. The act of sending a subpoena to a witness or other person to secure his attendance and testimony at trial or other proceeding (such as deposition); generally, subpoenas are obtained and sent out by the lawyers, rather than directly by the court.
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To signal is defined as to communicate or indicate.
To give rise to; bring about:
To turn pages:
To request to be supplied with:
To mention; refer to; comment on
To signal by making a gesture:
To bring about as an inevitable consequence.
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To call forth or summon (a spirit, demon, etc.), as by chanting magical words; conjure up
(Archaic) To call on or entreat solemnly, especially by an oath.
To call or summon by a silent gesture
Request means to ask for something.
To volunteer is defined as to give without being asked and without being paid.
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To ask or order to return:
To demand or ask payment:
To sound a bell in order to summon someone:
To give an order to; command:
To communicate with a sign or signs:
To ask for by petition; request formally:
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To create by thinking and writing; compose:
To call forth, draw out, or provoke (a response or reaction, for example):
To draw out; elicit
shows (related)
To bestow; to confer.
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committal (related)
petitioner (related)
mandamus (related)
affidavit (related)
the Judgment (related)
The definition of a citation is a ticket issued by the police or a reference to a work where the author is given formal credit and where the source is given for the original work.
Find another word for summons. In this page you can discover 63 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for summons, like: warrant, subpoena, writ, cry, indictment, call, notification, bell, calling, process and requisition.
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