BIND OVER


Meaning of BIND OVER in English

If someone is bound over by a court or a judge, they are given an order and must do as the order says for a particular period of time. (LEGAL)

On many occasions demonstrators were bound over to keep the peace...

They put us in a cell, and the next day some bumbling judge bound us over...

This imposes a duty on courts to ~ parents when they have no control over their children.

PHRASAL VERB: be V-ed P to-inf, V n P, V P n (not pron), also V P n to-inf

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