Usually means: Order to attend court, provide evidence.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word subpoena:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. subpoena: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. subpoena: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. subpoena: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. subpoena: Collins English Dictionary
  5. subpoena: Vocabulary.com
  6. Subpoena, subpoena: Wordnik
  7. subpoena: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. subpoena: Wiktionary
  9. subpoena: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. subpoena: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. subpoena: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. subpoena: Dictionary.com
  13. subpoena (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. subpoena: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Subpoena: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Subpoena: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. subpoena: Rhymezone
  18. Subpoena: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. subpoena: Free Dictionary
  20. subpoena: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. subpoena: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. subpoena: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. subpoena: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. subpoena: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  8. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  9. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  10. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  11. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  12. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  13. subpoena: Legal dictionary
  14. Glossary of Labor & Legal Terminology (No longer online)
  15. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. subpoena: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  2. subpoena: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. subpoena: Political
  2. subpoena: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Subpoena [latin], Subpoena: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See subpoenaed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (law, historical) A writ requiring a defendant to appear in court to answer a plaintiff's claim.
noun:  (law) A writ requiring someone to appear in court to give testimony.
verb:  (transitive) To summon with a subpoena.

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