Circuit Court of Appeals
/ˈsɜr·kət ˈkɔrt əv əˈpilz/, /ˈkoʊrt/ n [C]Definition
› a court in any of eleven areas in the US in which lawyers can argue that a decision made in a lower court should be changed: The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to rule on that case.
(Definition of Circuit Court of Appeals n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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