Search Result for "presentment":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (3)
1. an accusation of crime made by a grand jury on its own initiative;
[syn: presentment, notification]
2. a document that must be accepted and paid by another person;
3. a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view;
- Example: "the presentation of new data"
- Example: "he gave the customer a demonstration"
[syn: presentation, presentment, demonstration]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Presentment \Pre*sent"ment\, n. 1. The act of presenting, or the state of being presented; presentation. " Upon the heels of my presentment." --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Setting forth to view; delineation; appearance; representation; exhibition. [1913 Webster] Power to cheat the eye with blear illusion, And give it false presentment. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. (Law) (a) The notice taken by a grand jury of any offence from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them, as, the presentment of a nuisance, a libel, or the like; also, an inquisition of office and indictment by a grand jury; an official accusation presented to a tribunal by the grand jury in an indictment, or the act of offering an indictment; also, the indictment itself. (b) The official notice (formerly required to be given in court) of the surrender of a copyhold estate. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster] Presentment of a bill of exchange, the offering of a bill to the drawee for acceptance, or to the acceptor for payment. See Bill of exchange, under Bill. --Mozley & W. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
119 Moby Thesaurus words for "presentment": accommodation, accordance, alphabet, arraignment, art, award, awarding, bail, benefit, bestowal, bestowment, bill, blueprint, charactering, characterization, charge, chart, choreography, communication, concession, conferment, conferral, contribution, conventional representation, dance notation, debut, delineation, deliverance, delivery, demonstration, depiction, depictment, description, diagram, display, donation, drama, drawing, enactment, endowment, entertainment, exemplification, exhibit, exhibition, exposition, exposure, farewell performance, figuration, flesh show, furnishment, gifting, giving, grant, granting, hieroglyphic, iconography, ideogram, illustration, imagery, imaging, impartation, impartment, impeachment, indictment, information, investiture, letter, liberality, limning, logogram, logograph, map, musical notation, notation, offer, opening, ostentation, performance, pictogram, picture, picturization, plan, portraiture, portrayal, prefigurement, premiere, presentation, printing, production, projection, provision, realization, rendering, rendition, representation, retrospective, schema, score, script, show, showing, stage presentation, subscription, supplying, surrender, swan song, syllabary, symbol, tablature, theatrical performance, true bill, tryout, unfolding, unfoldment, unveiling, varnishing day, vernissage, vouchsafement, writing
