单词 | hearsay |
释义 | hearsay/ˈhɪəseɪ /noun [mass noun] 1Information received from other people which cannot be substantiated; rumour: according to hearsay, Bez had managed to break his arm...
Synonyms rumour, gossip, tittle-tattle, tattle, idle chatter, idle talk, mere talk, report; stories, tales, titbits; French bavardage, on dit; German Kaffeeklatsch; West Indian labrish, shu-shu informal buzz, the grapevine British informal goss North American informal scuttlebutt Australian/New Zealand informal furphy South African informal skinder rare bruit 1.1 Law The report of another person’s words by a witness, which is usually disallowed as evidence in a court of law: everything they had told him would have been ruled out as hearsay [as modifier]: the admissibility of hearsay evidence in civil proceedings...
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