appeal board
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- noun
- Formal
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comité de apelaciones
- The appeal board decided to overturn the previous ruling regarding the permit.
And remarkably, the appeal board ruled in his favour.
- And remarkably, the appeal board ruled in his favour.
Examples
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And remarkably, the appeal board ruled in his favour.
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On top of all of this, my SSDI claim has reached the Appeal Board level.
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After submitting my application, I awaited the decision from the appeal board.
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If you are dissatisfied with the outcome, you can take your case to the appeal board for reconsideration.
Synonyms
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A group of chosen officials who decide complaints about decisions by authorities
A group of officials who hear and decide appeals outside court
How Authoritative
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable by combining 'appeal' (a request to have a decision reviewed) with 'board' (a committee), yielding a committee that reviews appeals. This is a straightforward compositional noun–noun combination common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will generally understand the MWE (though finer legal distinctions like 'not a court' rely on context).
Etymology
Appeal board comes from a simple image: a group of people called a board sitting at a table and listening to someone's appeal, which is 'to ask to change a decision'. So an appeal board today is the group that hears these requests and decides whether to change the original decision.