Usually means: Review of lower court decision.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word certiorari:

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

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. certiorari: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. certiorari: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. certiorari: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. certiorari: Financial dictionary
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  10. certiorari: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. certiorari: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. certiorari: Medical dictionary

(Note: See certioraris as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (certiorari)

noun:  (US, law) A grant of the right of an appeal to be heard by an appellate court where that court has discretion to choose which appeals it will hear.
noun:  (British, law) A grant of review of a government action by a court with discretion to make such a review.

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