Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of being accepted; allowable.
- adjective Worthy of admission.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable or worthy of being admitted or suffered to enter.
- That may be allowed or conceded; allowable: as, your proposals are not admissible.
- In law, capable of being considered in reaching a decision: used of evidence offered in a judicial investigation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Entitled to be admitted, or worthy of being admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
capable ordeserving to beadmitted ,accepted orallowed ;allowable ,permissible ,acceptable - adjective artificial intelligence Describing a
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from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective deserving to be admitted
Etymologies
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Examples
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She and the lawyers were gone for ten minutes or so, and when they came back, Judge Higuera announced from the bench that not only would she not allow me to be tried as an adult, she wouldn’t even indict me as a juvenile unless the DA came up with some admissible evidence, with a strong emphasis on the word admissible.
THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010
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She and the lawyers were gone for ten minutes or so, and when they came back, Judge Higuera announced from the bench that not only would she not allow me to be tried as an adult, she wouldn’t even indict me as a juvenile unless the DA came up with some admissible evidence, with a strong emphasis on the word admissible.
THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010
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She and the lawyers were gone for ten minutes or so, and when they came back, Judge Higuera announced from the bench that not only would she not allow me to be tried as an adult, she wouldn’t even indict me as a juvenile unless the DA came up with some admissible evidence, with a strong emphasis on the word admissible.
THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010
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She and the lawyers were gone for ten minutes or so, and when they came back, Judge Higuera announced from the bench that not only would she not allow me to be tried as an adult, she wouldn’t even indict me as a juvenile unless the DA came up with some admissible evidence, with a strong emphasis on the word admissible.
THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010
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Already, in 1755, had the same Immanuel Kant, whilst yet a probationer for the chair of logic in a Prussian university, sketched the outline of that philosophy which has secured the admiration, though not the assent of all men known and proved to have understood it, of all men able to state its doctrines in terms admissible by its disciples.
Biographical Essays Thomas De Quincey 1822
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The "limits of legality" refers to the use of what one would call admissible evidence.
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2010
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What is the argument that these things are not "admissible"?
Archive 2006-10-01 Ann Althouse 2006
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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is still committed to separate mediation, following its declaration that a complaint lodged by Pobal Chill Chomáin over the project is "admissible".
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"admissible" under Rome Statute article 1 (complementarity) and article 17.
ScreenTalk 2010
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"admissible" under Rome Statute article 1 (complementarity) and article 17.
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