rendition
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Is rendition a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (law, chiefly US) Formal deliverance of a verdict.UScountableuncountable
2. (law, chiefly US) The handing-over of someone wanted for justice who has fled a given jurisdiction; extradition.Examples: "Since then, according to his lawyers and relatives, he has been repeatedly beaten, threatened with a firearm and with further rendition to Guantánamo by Ugandan officials, before being questioned by American officials."UScountableuncountable
3. (now rare) The surrender (of a city, fortress etc.).archaiccountableuncountable
4. (now rare) The handing over of a person or thing.archaiccountableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To surrender or hand over (a person or thing); especially, for one jurisdiction to do so to another.Examples: "Records show that only about three hundred fugitive slaves were renditioned to the South between 1850 and secession a decade later."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary