remand
IPA: rɪmˈænd
noun
- The act of sending an accused person back into custody whilst awaiting trial.
- The act of an appellate court sending a matter back to a lower court for review or disposal.
verb
- To send a prisoner back to custody.
- To send a case back to a lower court for further consideration.
- (obsolete) To send back.
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Examples of "remand" in Sentences
- Remand must be ordered by a judge.
- The trial court's decision after remand.
- As a result, a judge extended his remand.
- I removed the photo of the remand centre.
- Reversed and remanded for a plenary hearing.
- Grant was arrested and sent to prison on remand.
- The result of the debate was 'remand for review'.
- The Eighth Circuit vacated and remanded the sentence.
- Leonard eventually remands it to Penny for safekeeping.
- A remand may be a full remand, essentially ordering an entirely new trial.
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