Usually means: Military control over civilian population.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word martial law:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. martial law: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. martial law: Merriam-Webster
  3. martial law: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. martial law: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. martial law: Collins English Dictionary
  6. martial law: Vocabulary.com
  7. martial-law, martial law: Wordnik
  8. martial law: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. martial law: Wiktionary
  10. martial law: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. martial law: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. martial law: Dictionary.com
  13. Martial Law (TV series), Martial Law, Martial law (disambiguation), Martial law: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. martial law: Rhymezone
  15. martial law: FreeDictionary.org
  16. martial law: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. martial law: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. martial law: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. martial law: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. martial law: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. martial law: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

(Note: See martial_laws as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (martial law)

noun:  Rule by military authorities, especially when imposed on a civilian population in time of war or other crisis, or in an occupied territory.

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