Usually means: Formal speech; defendant's courtroom statement.
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  1. allocution: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. allocution: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. allocution: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. allocution: Collins English Dictionary
  5. allocution: Vocabulary.com
  6. Allocution, allocution: Wordnik
  7. allocution: Wiktionary
  8. allocution: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. allocution: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. allocution: Dictionary.com
  11. Allocution (media theory), Allocution: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Allocution: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. allocution: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. allocution: Rhymezone
  15. Allocution: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. allocution: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. allocution: Free Dictionary
  18. allocution: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  20. allocution: Merriam-Webster.com

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  1. allocution: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. allocution: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (allocution)

noun:  A formal speech, especially one which is regarded as authoritative and forceful.
noun:  (chiefly US, law) The question put to a convicted defendant by a judge after the rendering of the verdict in a trial, in which the defendant is asked whether he or she wishes to make a statement to the court before sentencing; the statement made by a defendant in response to such a question; the legal right of a defendant to make such a statement.
noun:  (chiefly US, law) The legal right of a victim, in some jurisdictions, to make a statement to a court prior to sentencing of a defendant convicted of a crime causing injury to that victim; the actual statement made to a court by a victim.
noun:  (Roman Catholicism) A pronouncement by a pope to an assembly of church officials concerning a matter of church policy.
noun:  (communication, media) The mode of information dissemination in which media broadcasts are transmitted to multiple receivers with no or very limited capability of a two-way exchange of information.

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