Definition of dispositive
: directed toward or effecting disposition (as of a case)
- dispositive evidence
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The two judges who decided this case are both named Edith, which is weird, but not dispositive.
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Maybe that's a smidge low, but top eight doesn't sound quite right, either, for a group whose dispositive performance virtues in Big East play were outstanding defensive rebounding and a highly favorable disparity in free throws.
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Subscribe That may seem like an antiquated approach in an age of ever-improving DNA technology; some 350 men and women have now been freed thanks to its dispositive power.
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Implicit in the argument in the memo is that this omission on the part of the feds about Steele, if indeed there was such an omission, was dispositive to the judge’s decision to endorse the warrant.
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For me the civil rights movement was about lowering the racial identity as a dispositive feature of the human being.
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All fact discovery for the trial is due by Feb. 15, 2018, with all dispositive motions filed by March 15, 2018 and any responses in opposition due by April 16, 2018.
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From the Department of Labor: Each factor is considered, but none are required or dispositive.
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But conservatives should spare a moment to give some consideration to the merits — which are real but not dispositive — of the other side of the argument.
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First Known Use of dispositive
circa 1618
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legal Definition of dispositive
1
: directed toward or effecting a disposition (as of a case)
- an endless variety of dispositive…pretrial motions
- —Robert Shaw-Meadow
2
: relating to a disposition of property
- dispositive words in a will
3
: providing a final resolution (as of an issue) : having control over an outcome
- dispositive of the question
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