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death certificates

death certificates is the plural of death certificate.

Meaning of death certificate

Noun

death certificate (plural death certificates)

  1. A document issued by a medical practitioner, or by a registrar, certifying the date, location and cause of a person's death as later entered in an official register of deaths.
    • Meanwhile, the death certificate was as good as signed by the North Eastern Region on December 1 last, when all mineral workings were withdrawn from the H. & B. route and seven additional services were substituted on the N.E.R. route out of Hull; [...].1959 February, “Talking of Trains: The H. & B.R. fades away”, in Trains Illustrated, page 64

Questions about death certificates

What is death certificates the plural of?
Death certificates is the plural of death certificate.

Words near death certificates in the dictionary

  1. death caps
  2. death card
  3. death cards
  4. death cell
  5. death certificate
  6. death certificates
  7. death chamber
  8. death chambers
  9. death clerk
  10. death clerks
  11. death clock

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