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identification parades

identification parades is the plural of identification parade.

Meaning of identification parade

Noun

identification parade (plural identification parades)

  1. A process by which a witness confirms the identity of a criminal suspect, by viewing the suspect together with other people who were not involved in the crime.
    • He had once in his early days dropped in with his Superintendent at an identification parade. It was not his case, and they were both there on other business, but they lingered in the background and watched while a man and a woman, separately, walked down the line of twelve nondescript men, looking...1951, Josephine Tey, chapter 2, in The Daughter of Time, London: Peter Davies, page 24
    Synonyms:
    identity parade, lineup, police lineup

Questions about identification parades

What is identification parades the plural of?
Identification parades is the plural of identification parade.

Words near identification parades in the dictionary

  1. identification key
  2. identification keys
  3. identification map
  4. identification maps
  5. identification parade
  6. identification parades
  7. identification space
  8. identification spaces
  9. identificational
  10. identifications
  11. identificator

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