{
    "term": "tribunal",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a type of court with the authority to deal with a particular problem or disagreement",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an international war crimes tribunal"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a military tribunal"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He stood trial before an international tribunal."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She told the tribunal that she was a victim of sex discrimination."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She took her case to a tribunal."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The case went to a tribunal."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The disciplinary tribunal upheld an earlier ruling."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The dispute was settled by a tribunal."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The tribunal sentenced him to twenty years in prison."
                },
                {
                    "text": "an employment tribunal claim"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/traɪˈbjuːnl/",
                "audio": "tr/tribunal/tribunal__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/traɪˈbjuːnl/",
                "audio": "tr/tribunal/tribunal__us_1_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (denoting a seat for judges): from Old French, or from Latin tribunal ‘raised platform provided for magistrate's seats’, from tribunus, literally ‘head of a tribe’, from tribus ‘tribe’. The current sense dates from the early 20th cent."
}