Usually means: Official legal order by court.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. writ: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. writ, writ: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. writ, writ: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. writ: Collins English Dictionary
  5. writ: Vocabulary.com
  6. Writ, writ: Wordnik
  7. writ: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. writ: Wiktionary
  9. writ: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. writ: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. writ: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. writ, writ: Dictionary.com
  13. writ: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. writ: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. WRIT, Writ (disambiguation), Writ (website), Writ: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Writ: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. writ: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. writ: Rhymezone
  19. Writ: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. writ: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. writ: Free Dictionary
  22. writ: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. writ: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. writ: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. writ: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. writ: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Writ: A DICTIONARY OF LAW (1893)
  8. writ: Finance-Glossary.com
  9. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  10. Writ: Investopedia
  11. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  12. writ: Legal dictionary
  13. Glossary of Labor & Legal Terminology (No longer online)
  14. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. writ: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Writ: Glossary of Election Terms
  2. WRIT: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. writ: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. writ: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (law) A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something.
noun:  Authority, power to enforce compliance.
noun:  (archaic) That which is written; writing.
noun:  A written order, issued by the British House of Commons, ordering a parliamentary by-election, or an order, issued by the Lord Chancellor, ordering a general election, or one issued by the House of Lords summoning Peers to the Chamber.

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