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Noun: pretrial  'pree,trI-ul
  1. (law) a conference held before the trial begins to bring the parties together to outline discovery proceedings and to define the issues to be tried; more useful in civil than in criminal cases
    - pretrial conference

Derived forms: pretrials

Type of: conference, group discussion

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