hearingnoun
uk/ˈhɪə.rɪŋ/us/ˈhɪr.ɪŋ/hearing noun (MEETING)
[ C ] an official meeting that is held to collect the facts about an event or problem:
A disciplinary hearing will examine charges of serious professional misconduct against three surgeons.
I think we should give him a (fair) hearing (= we should listen to what he wants to say).
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- He didn't feel he got a fair hearing in court.
- Did he give your complaints a sympathetic hearing?
- There is to be a public hearing next week in the Town Hall.
- The evidence was submitted at a pre-trial hearing.
- The hearing will be held behind closed doors.
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Court cases, orders & decisions
- actionable
- administer
- admissible
- affidavit
- affiliation order
- bail
- bale
- court martial
- inadmissible
- injunction
- judgment
- judicature
- judicial
- plea
- remedy
- retrial
- Rex
- ruling
- separation
- sequester
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hearing noun (ABILITY)
[ U ] the ability to hear:
He's getting old and his hearing isn't very good.
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The senses in general
- eyesight
- feeling
- night vision
- night vision
- sensation
- sense
- sensory
- sight
- smell
- synaesthesia
- taste
- touch
- vision
hearingadjective
uk/ˈhɪə.rɪŋ//ˈhɪr.ɪŋ/able to hear:
We wanted to create something that both deaf and hearing audiences could enjoy.
Opposite
deaf
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Using the ears
- audio
- auditory
- be all ears idiom
- earshot
- eavesdrop
- hark at sb! idiom
- hear
- hear sb out
- hearer
- hearken
- lend
- listen
- listen in on sth/sb
- mishear
- overhear
- pin
- pin back your ears idiom
- prick
- prick (sth) up
- read my lips idiom
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