Usually means: Formal declaration of not guilty.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word acquittal:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. acquittal: Merriam-Webster
  2. acquittal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. acquittal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. acquittal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. acquittal: Vocabulary.com
  6. Acquittal, acquittal: Wordnik
  7. acquittal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. acquittal: Wiktionary
  9. acquittal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. acquittal: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. acquittal: Dictionary.com
  12. acquittal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Acquittal, The Acquittal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Acquittal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. acquittal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. acquittal: Rhymezone
  17. Acquittal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. acquittal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. acquittal: FreeDictionary.org
  20. acquittal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. acquittal: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. acquittal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  23. acquittal: Merriam-Webster

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. acquittal: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. acquittal: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. acquittal: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  9. acquittal: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (now rare) The act of fulfilling the duties (of a given role, obligation etc.).
noun:  (law) A legal decision that someone is not guilty with which they have been charged, or the formal dismissal of a charge by some other legal process.
noun:  Payment of a debt or other obligation; reparations, amends.
noun:  (historical) The act of releasing someone from debt or other obligation; acquittance.
noun:  (rare) Avoidance of danger; deliverance.

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