The defence attorney did his best on behalf of Tom to secure his acquittal.
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Acquittal
//əˈkwɪ.d(ə)l//
Synonyms for "acquittal" (85 found)
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13 entriesTranslations
56 translations across 31 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- تَبْرِئَة noun (legal decision of not guilty)
Armenian
1 entries- արդարացում noun (legal decision of not guilty)
Belarusian
1 entries- апраўда́нне noun (legal decision of not guilty)
Bulgarian
1 entries- оправда́ване noun (legal decision of not guilty)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 宣告無罪 /宣告无罪 noun (legal decision of not guilty)
- 無罪開釋 /无罪开释 noun (legal decision of not guilty)
Danish
3 entries- frifindelse noun (legal decision of not guilty)
- frikendelse noun (legal decision of not guilty)
- frikendelse noun (acquittance from debt)
Dutch
1 entries- vrijspraak noun (legal decision of not guilty)
Faroese
1 entries- frídøming noun (legal decision of not guilty)
Finnish
4 entries- mitätöinti noun (acquittance from debt)
- vapauttava tuomio noun (legal decision of not guilty)
- vapautus noun (legal decision of not guilty)
- velan maksu noun (payment of debt or other obligation)
French
3 entries- acquittement noun (legal decision of not guilty)
- acquittement noun (acquittance from debt)
- relaxe noun (legal decision of not guilty)
German
1 entries- Freispruch noun (legal decision of not guilty)
Hebrew
1 entries- זיכוי noun (legal decision of not guilty)
Hungarian
4 entries- felmentés noun (legal decision of not guilty)
- felmentő ítélet noun (legal decision of not guilty)
- kártalanítás noun (payment of debt or other obligation)
- teljesítés noun (payment of debt or other obligation)
Icelandic
1 entries- sýknudómur noun (legal decision of not guilty)
Indonesian
2 entries- bebas noun (legal decision of not guilty)
- pembebasan noun (legal decision of not guilty)
Italian
1 entries- assoluzione noun (legal decision of not guilty)
Japanese
2 entries- 放免 noun (legal decision of not guilty)
- 無罪判決 noun (legal decision of not guilty)
Korean
2 entries- 무죄 선고 noun (legal decision of not guilty)
- 무죄 판결 noun (legal decision of not guilty)
Malay
1 entries- pembebasan noun (legal decision of not guilty)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- frifinnelse noun (legal decision of not guilty)
- frifinnelsesdom noun (legal decision of not guilty)
- frikjennelse noun (legal decision of not guilty)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- frifinning noun (legal decision of not guilty)
- frikjennande dom noun (legal decision of not guilty)
- frikjenning noun (legal decision of not guilty)
Persian
1 entries- برائت noun (legal decision of not guilty)
Polish
4 entries- spłacenie noun (payment of debt or other obligation)
- uiszczenie noun (payment of debt or other obligation)
- umorzenie noun (acquittance from debt)
- uniewinnienie noun (legal decision of not guilty)
Portuguese
1 entries- absolvição noun (legal decision of not guilty)
Romanian
1 entries- achitare noun (legal decision of not guilty)
Russian
2 entries- оправда́ние noun (legal decision of not guilty)
- освобожде́ние noun (acquittance from debt)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- oslobađanje noun (legal decision of not guilty)
- ослобађање noun (legal decision of not guilty)
Spanish
1 entries- absolución noun (legal decision of not guilty)
Swedish
2 entries- frikännande noun (legal decision of not guilty)
- frikännande dom noun (legal decision of not guilty)
Tagalog
1 entries- pawalansala noun (legal decision of not guilty)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ви́правдання noun (legal decision of not guilty)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Tom was relieved that the jury in Mary's trial brought in a verdict of acquittal on all charges.
Source: tatoeba (5267374)
A case in West Virginia established that acquittal discharges a person from guilt, a pardon only from punishment.
Source: tatoeba (5267379)
In a civil contract, an acquittal means that one party has released the other from an agreed obligation, usually because a debt has been paid in full.
Source: tatoeba (5267388)
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