Collocations for "court"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "court" in context.
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court
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [circuit, appeal, federal, municipal] court
- (the) [criminal, family, small claims, supreme] court
- the supreme court (of)
- have to be in court on [Monday]
- have court on [Monday]
- go to court to [determine, consider, make, order]
- will have your day in court
- will see you in court!
- will be [presented, heard] in the [supreme] court
- the court will adjourn (at, by)
- found [innocent, guilty] in court
- [spoke, testified, lied] during court
- the evidence was [admitted, rejected, dismissed] in court
- was [rejected] by the court
- while (the) court is in session
- the court's [decision, ruling, findings]
- the court has [decided] that
- is the court with jurisdiction (over)
- the court of [appeals, justice]
- in a court of law
- a [basketball, squash, volleyball, tennis] court
- [hard, clay] -court tennis
- (the players) were on court for [two, three] hours
- [clean, wipe, dry, maintain] a (tennis) court
- on your court date
- [received, got] a court order (to)
- a court [judge, officer, ruling]
- an out-of-court [settlement, agreement]
- courted her with [poems, songs, flowers]
- courted by [him, many]
- courted and [married, admired, flattered, caressed, wooed]
- courted [publicly, secretly, eagerly, continuously]
- courted in [spring]
- dated: when [we, your mother and I] were courting
- courted the [media, press]
- courted the [friendship, support, favor] of
- (always) courting [controversy, trouble]
- is courting [disaster, the sack]
- her [comments, actions, behavior] courted [controversy]
- court [controversy] by [saying, suggesting, claiming, doing]
'court' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
abbreviation
- act
- admission
- admit
- advise
- advocate
- allow
- apologize
- appeal
- appear
- appearance
- argue
- arrears
- attorney
- award
- backlog
- badass
- ball
- basketball
- battle
- case
- challenge
- chamber
- charge
- chief
- claim
- clay
- clear
- clerk
- closure
- competence
- confess
- contempt
- contest
- convict
- convince
- counsel
- criminal
- decision
- defendant
- defense
- deprive
- desert
- destroy
- determined
- dismiss
- disorder
- disposition
- dispute
- district