Phrase Hound found 16 phrases and 6 compound words that contain summary. The most common are listed below. Open summary in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 16
- executive summaryA short document that summarizes all the reports of a company, or the contents of a longer report to which it is attached.
- summary judgmentThe determination by a court that no factual issues are in dispute, and that the legal issues require the case to be decided in favor of one party or the other.
- Plot summary
- management summaryA document that summarizes all the reports of a company in a readable fashion; an executive summary.
- summary executionAn execution in which a person is accused of a crime and immediately killed without the benefit of a full and fair trial.
- summary offenceA crime in some common law jurisdictions that can be proceeded against summarily, without the right to a jury trial and/or indictment, as required for an indictable offence.
- summary jurisdictionThe authority of a court of law to summarily issue a conviction, typically for a petty crime, without requiring a trial by jury.
- summary proceedingsCertain statutory remedies taken without the formal bringing of an action by process and pleading.
- summary dismissalA determination by a court that no relevant factual issues are being presented, that the case to be decided has no basis, and so cannot be allowed to proceed.
- summary offencesplural of summary offence: A crime in some common law jurisdictions that can be proceeded against summarily, without the right to a jury trial and/or indictment, as required for an indictable offence.
- summary court-martialThe lowest level and least formal type of military trial in the US armed forces, used to resolve minor offenses quickly.
- summary executionsplural of summary execution: An execution in which a person is accused of a crime and immediately killed without the benefit of a full and fair trial.
- summary judgmentsplural of summary judgment: The determination by a court that no factual issues are in dispute, and that the legal issues require the case to be decided in favor of one party or the other.
- summary diligenceThe process by which execution may proceed without the need of further application to the court, in the case of bonds and other instruments registered for execution.
- summary dismissalsplural of summary dismissal: A determination by a court that no relevant factual issues are being presented, that the case to be decided has no basis, and so cannot be allowed to proceed.
- summary court-martialsplural of summary court-martial: The lowest level and least formal type of military trial in the US armed forces, used to resolve minor offenses quickly.
Compound words 6
- summarizerOne who, or that which, summarizes.
- summarinessThe state or condition of being summary.
- metasummaryA summary of summaries.
- microsummaryA very short summary.
- midsummaryA trimmed midrange.
- summaristSomeone who summarizes.