(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
In a court of law, the ~ is the decision that is given by the jury or judge at the end of a trial.
The jury returned a unanimous guilty ~...
Three judges will deliver their ~ in October.
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2.
Someone’s ~ on something is their opinion of it, after thinking about it or investigating it.
The doctor’s ~ was that he was entirely healthy...
N-COUNT: oft with poss, oft N on n