court-martial
- n a military court to try members of the armed services who are accused of serious breaches of martial law
- n a trial that is conducted by a military court
- v subject to trial by court-martial
- The court-martial of an Army officer who refused to deploy to Iraq ends in a surprising legal stalemate.
- An iron-jawed British court-martial convened last week in the locally celebrated case of a Sergeant-Who-Watered-The-Beer -Of -The - Officers' -Mess -At -The -Tower-Of-London .
- This was a man who, as a lieutenant in the Army, risked a court-martial by refusing to sit in the back of a military bus.