admissible

adjective ad·mis·si·ble \ əd-ˈmi-sə-bəl , ad- \

|Updated on: 12 Jun 2018

Examples: admissible in a Sentence

Definition of admissible

1 : capable of being allowed or conceded : permissible

evidence legally admissible in court

2 : capable or worthy of being admitted

admissible to the university

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admissibility

play \-ˌmi-sə-ˈbi-lə-tē\ noun

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Examples of admissible in a Sentence

The judge decided that the confession was admissible in court.
using direct quotations without naming your source is not admissible

Recent Examples of admissible from the Web

The two sides are expected to return to court in May to determine what expert testimony will be admissible at trial.

— maxine bernstein, OregonLive.com, "Judge refuses to dismiss any of the 5 charges against indicted FBI agent," 26 Feb. 2018
Although defense lawyers, like anyone else, can obtain users' information that is public, those communications are not admissible in court until the media company or the user confirm their authenticity.

— maura dolan, latimes.com, "California Supreme Court says social media firms must turn over some user communications to criminal defendants," 25 May 2018
That's not even admissible, hearsay, in a courtroom, nevermind four-way.

— Fox News, "Reps. Jordan, Gaetz on demand for second special counsel," 23 May 2018
ServiceMaster All Care Restoration attorneys argued company executives could not have bribed the worker because parts of his testimony undermined the company's case and criminal allegations were not admissible in a civil suit.

— rebekah l. sanders, azcentral, "Goodyear homeowners battle company over black-mold removal," 16 May 2018
Both the trial and the appeals courts deemed it admissible; a higher-level state appeals court did not.

— jill lepore, The New Yorker, "The Rise of the Victims’-Rights Movement," 14 May 2018
Those images, survey and Facebook page are particularly offensive, extremely prejudicial, highly inflammatory, irrelevant and not otherwise admissible.

— Washington Post, "Lawyers of man charged with murder, hate crime seek to ban ‘particularly offensive’ evidence in slaying of black student at U. Md.," 7 May 2018
Officials familiar with his case have said the Trump administration decided to ask Saudi Arabia to take custody of him after concluding that there was insufficient courtroom-admissible evidence to prosecute him.

— charlie savage, New York Times, "Judge Halts Transfer of American ISIS Suspect to Other Country," 19 Apr. 2018
Johnson was the only one of the defendants to appear at the hearing, which was held to hammer out what testimony and evidence will be admissible during the trial, and what will be left out.

— michael kiefer, azcentral, "Bribery trial involving Arizona utility regulator and Johnson Utilities weeks away," 9 May 2018

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Origin and Etymology of admissible

borrowed from French, probably borrowed from Medieval Latin admissibilis, from Latin admissus (past participle of admittere "to ¹admit") + -ibilis -ible

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First Known Use: 1611

in the meaning defined at sense 1

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