appealable

ap·peal

A0375600 (ə-pēl′)n.1. An earnest or urgent request, entreaty, or supplication.2. A resort to a higher authority or greater power, as for sanction, corroboration, or a decision: an appeal to reason; an appeal to her listener's sympathy.3. Law a. A higher court's review of the correctness of a decision by a lower court.b. A case so reviewed.c. A request for a higher court to review the decision of a lower court.4. The power of attracting or of arousing interest: a city with special appeal for museumgoers.v. ap·pealed, ap·peal·ing, ap·peals v.intr.1. To make an earnest or urgent request, as for help.2. To have recourse, as for corroboration; resort: I appeal to your sense of justice.3. Law To make or request an appeal.4. To be attractive or interesting: The idea didn't appeal to me.v.tr. Law To request for an appeal of (a case) to a higher court for rehearing.Idiom: on appeal In the process of being appealed; while being appealed.

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[Middle English apel, from Old French, from apeler, to appeal, from Latin appellāre, to entreat; see pel- in Indo-European roots.]

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ap·peal′a·bil′i·ty n.ap·peal′a·ble adj.ap·peal′er n.

Thesaurus

Adj.

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appealable - capable of being appealed especially to a higher tribunal; "decisions...appealable to the head of the agency"- New Republicunappealable - not subject to appeal; "the judge's ruling was handed down in a preliminary hearing rather than a trial and was therefore unappealable"

Translations

appellabile