adjudge, suit or lawsuit, pronounced, taker, nominalizations,

新聞例:

Google CEO Schmidt vowed to aggressively fight Viacom's copyright suit against YouTube, saying Viacom is a company "built on lawsuits."

The suspected hostage taker, Amedy Colibaly, was killed. Charlie Rose, Norah O&#39 ...

Synonyms:	declare, hold
Usage:	It was a tight race, but Frankie was ultimately adjudged the winner.

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Neither President Obama nor Mitt Romney has responded to calls for a renewed debate over how to prevent gun violence after the deadly rampage in Colorado last week.

 

 

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nominalize[nom・i・nal・ize]

• 発音記号[nɑ'mənəlàiz | nɔ'm-]

[動](他)《文法》…を名詞化する.

nòm・i・nal・i・zátion

[名][U]名詞化.

adjudge[ad・judge]

• 発音記号[ədʒʌ'dʒ]
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[動](他)((形式))

1 …が（…であると）宣告［判決］する((to be))；〈…であると〉判決する, 認定する((that節))

adjudge the criminal (to be) guilty ［＝adjudge that the criminal is guilty］
犯罪人に有罪の判決を下す

The signature in the contract was adjudged invalid.
その契約書の署名は無効だと宣告された.

2 〈事件を〉裁く, の判決を下す.

3 〈賞罰などを〉（人に）審査のうえ授与する((to ...))

The prize was adjudged to him.
賞は彼に授与された.

4 …と判断する, 見なす((to be))

adjudge the drama (to be) a success
芝居は成功だと思う.

pronounced(prə-nounst') 
adj.

1. Spoken; voiced.
2. Strongly marked; distinct: walks with a pronounced limp.

pronouncedly pro·nounc'ed·ly (-noun'sĭd-lē) adv.
pronouncedness pro·nounc'ed·ness n.

taker[tak・er]

• レベル：社会人必須
• 発音記号[téikər]

[名]

1 捕獲者；（特に土地の）取得者

test-takers
テストを受ける人

a taker of a quick ［a long］ shower
シャワーの早い［長い］人.

2 受取人, 集札係.

3 （申し出などを）受ける人, 応募者；賭(か)けの受け手.

4 （新聞・雑誌の）購読者.

NOUN

1[IN COMBINATION] A person who takes a specified thing:a drug-takera risk-taker

2A person who takes a bet or accepts an offer orchallenge:there were plenty of takers when I offered a small wager

suit (LEGAL PROBLEM)

noun [C] (ALSO lawsuit)訴訟; 告訴 （suit at law）

a problem taken to a court of law, by an ordinary person or an organization rather than the police, for a legal decision:

He brought/MAINLY US filed a $12 million libel suit against the newspaper, claiming his professional reputation had been damaged by the paper's stories.
a malpractice/negligence/paternity suit

(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)

adjudge Show phonetics
verb [T often passive] FORMAL
to announce a decision or consider something, especially officially:
[+ to infinitive] Half an hour into the game Paterson was adjudged to have fouled Jackson and was sent off.
[+ noun or adjective] In October 1990, Mirchandani was adjudged bankrupt.
Fairbanks was adjudged the winner, a decision which has outraged a good few members of the boxing fraternity.

ad・judge

━━ vt. 判決する; 審判する; 審判して（賞を）与える, 交付する; 【法】（賠償金などを）審理の上与える; …と見なす.
ad・judg(e)・ment　━━ n.
ad・ju・di・cate
　━━ v. 判決［裁定］する; 〔章〕 （競技などの）審判を務める.
ad・ju・di・ca・tion　n.
ad・ju・di・ca・tor　n.