Acquittal vs Completion - What's the difference?
acquittal | completion | Related terms |
(legal) A legal decision that someone is not guilty with which they have been charged, or the formal dismissal of a charge by some other legal process.
Payment of a debt or other obligation; reparations, amends.
(rare) Avoidance of danger; deliverance.
The act or state of being or making something complete; conclusion, accomplishment.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10
, passage=Mr. Cooke had had a sloop?yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.}}
(label) The conclusion of an act of conveyancing concerning the sale of a property.
(label) The act of making a metric space complete by adding points.
(label) The space resulting from such an act.