🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

异议意见

Pronunciation / Transliteration: yìyì yìjiàn

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Dissenting opinion/dɪˈzɛn.tɪŋ əˈpɪn.jən/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"最高法院法官发表了一份异议意见。"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A separate written legal opinion by one or more judges of a court which disagrees with the decision reached by the majority of the court.

    "The landmark ruling was accompanied by a powerful dissenting opinion that later influenced future legal arguments."
  2. 2

    An expressed viewpoint or stance that strongly opposes the prevailing consensus within a group or organization.

    "During the board meeting, her dissenting opinion challenged the company's aggressive expansion strategy."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'dissenting', derived from the Latin 'dissentire' (to disagree, from 'dis-' apart + 'sentire' to feel or think), and 'opinion', from the Latin 'opinio' (opinion, conjecture). Established in legal terminology during the development of appellate court systems in Anglo-American jurisprudence to describe a formal judicial disagreement.

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