subpoenaed

[suh-pee-nuhd, suhb-]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

Law.

(of a witness or evidence) required by a subpoena to appear or be submitted before a court or other deliberative body.
The subpoenaed recordings include over 33 hours of conversations, mostly between the defendant and his parents and brother.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of subpoena.

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Other Word Forms

unsubpoenaed adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of subpoenaed¹

First recorded in 1840–45; subpoena + -ed ² ( def. ) for the adjective; subpoena + -ed ¹ ( def. ) for the verb

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Baldoni's team also briefly subpoenaed Swift, whose song "My Tears Ricochet" appears on the "It Ends With Us" soundtrack, though the subpoena was withdrawn earlier this month.

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It was originally reported that Swift had been subpoenaed to give information after it was alleged she tried to pressure Baldoni to accept script rewrites by Lively for the film.

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When the government subpoenaed reporter James Risen to testify about the identity of his anonymous source, he faced prison for contempt of court.

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A journalist gets subpoenaed and asked to reveal a confidential source.

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Earlier this summer, I was subpoenaed to watch it as part of a deposition in the civil suit.

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