hearsay
- IPA[ˈhirˌsā]
美式
- information received from other people that one cannot adequately substantiate; rumor;the report of another person's words by a witness, which is usually disallowed as evidence in a court of law
noun: hearsay
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. information received from other people that one cannot adequately substantiate; rumor according to hearsay, Bob had managed to break his arm
- ▪ the report of another person's words by a witness, which is usually disallowed as evidence in a court of law everything they had told him would have been ruled out as hearsay the admissibility of hearsay evidence