extrajudicially
- adverb
- /ˌɛkstrəˈdʒudɪʃəli/
- Formal
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extrajudicialmente
- "Gloria Allred, a lawyer known for taking women's rights cases, did not answer the question but in a follow-up stated she would trust Obama "one thousand percent" with the decision to extrajudicially assassinate people on the kill list.
- extrajudicially executed
Examples
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Numerous grave violations of human rights by the security forces of the state have also been reported, and thousands of suspected fundamentalists have been imprisoned while others have been extrajudicially executed.
Academic text (1995) -
According to the Country Report on Human Rights Practices, the Russian federal security forces extrajudicially executed many Chechens and were involved in politically motivated disappearances.
Academic text (2003) -
Reports indicate that the officials were involved in extrajudicially detaining individuals without proper legal procedures.
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The activists claimed that many people were extrajudicially executed by the regime, bypassing the judicial system entirely.
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In many cases, the suspects were extrajudicially removed from the community, raising serious human rights concerns.
Synonyms
In a way that is outside the law
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
extrajudicially = extrajudicial (semi-transparent) = extra + judicial + ly
Formed from the adjective 'extrajudicial' with the adverbial suffix '-ly'; the meaning is compositionally clear but is a specialized legal term that may be unfamiliar to average learners.
Etymology
The word extrajudicially comes from extra- meaning 'outside' and judicial, which is like judge and means 'court' or 'law'. So to act extrajudicially is to do something 'outside the court' and without the normal legal process.