Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

opening statement

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.65 in modern English

Syllables: open-ing s-tate-ment
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

In adversarial legal systems, a statement made by a party at the beginning of a trial or comparable factfinding proceeding, in which that party lays out their case, generally including the points of fact that they intend to demonstrate and to some degree indicating the rhetorical arguments for why they should prevail.

Inflected Forms

opening statements (plural)

Synonyms

opening argument opening speech

Questions

What does opening statement mean?: In adversarial legal systems, a statement made by a party at the beginning of a trial or comparable factfinding proceeding, in which that party lays out their case, generally including the points of fact that they intend to demonstrate and to some degree indicating the rhetorical arguments for why they should prevail.

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