how to pronounce subpoena

/səˈpiː.nə/

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subpoena is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of subpoena in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… surveillance and a subpoena was obtained …”

meaning of subpoena

A subpoena is a document issued by a court or other tribunal requiring a person to appear before the court at a certain time and place to give testimony or to produce documents.

subpoena frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word subpoena occurs in english on average 0.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics subpoena can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that subpoena can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;