英语词汇“Chancery Office”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Chancery /chänˈsə-ri/

noun

Formerly, the highest court of justice next to the House of Lords, presided over by the Lord High Chancellor, now a division of the High Court of Justice

A court of public record generally

The office of a chancellor

(without cap) the political office in an embassy or legation (Brit diplomacy)

ORIGIN: Fr chancellerie

Chancery Office noun

In Scotland, an office in the General Register House at Edinburgh, managed by a director, in which all royal charters of novodamus, patents of dignities, gifts of offices, remissions, legitimations, presentations, commissions, and other writs appointed to pass the Great and Quarter Seals are recorded

in chancery

(of an estate, etc) in litigation
(of a wrestler's or boxer's head) held firmly under his adversary's arm (slang)
Hence, in an awkward or helpless predicament (slang)