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subcite

subcite verb: to review and verify the citations in an legal article.

Verb

subcite (third-person singular simple present subcites, present participle subciting, simple past and past participle subcited)

  1. (ambitransitive, Harvard Law School) To review and verify the citations in an legal article.
    • On June 3, the games began. I joined the long line of two hundred 1Ls to pick up the 650-page packet containing the article to be subcited, the information for the case note, and all the relevant cases.1992, Richard D. Kahlenberg, Broken Contract: A Memoir of Harvard Law School, Boston, M.A.; London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 62
    • In the admissions process, interested candidates participate in a writing competition consisting of a 'subcite' component, which involves correcting errors in a short written piece and a commentary section in which applicants report and analyze a recent case before the United States Supreme Court....2013 October 7, Dev A. Patel, “Number of Female Harvard Law Review Editors Nearly Doubled in First Gender-Based Affirmative Action Cycle”, in The Harvard Crimson, Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard Crimson...

Forms of subcite

third-person singular presentsubcites
present participlesubciting
past participlesubcited
pastsubcited

Origin of subcite

From sub- + cite.

Words formed from subcite

Questions about subcite

What does subcite mean?
Subcite means to review and verify the citations in an legal article.
What part of speech is subcite?
Subcite is a verb.
What is the past tense of subcite?
The past tense of subcite is subcited.

Words near subcite in the dictionary

  1. subcircuitry
  2. subcircuits
  3. subcircular
  4. subcistrome
  5. subcistromes
  6. subcite
  7. subcited
  8. subciter
  9. subciters
  10. subcites
  11. subcities

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