alibi

Определение alibi в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь: To provide an alibi for; To provide an excuse for; The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi. The Criminal Law Deskbook (1988; ISBN 0820512176) states: "Alibi is different from all of the other defenses...it is based upon the premise that the defendant is truly innocent."; {n} a plea of being elsewhere; Proof offered by one accused of a crime that he was in a different place from that at which the crime was committed at the time it was committed; In another place; a special defence that the accused was in another specified place at the time of the crime; (elsewhere) A plea of having been at another place at the time that an offence is alleged to have been committed "Never mind the character, and stick to the alley bi Nothing like an alley bi, Sammy, nothing " - Dickens Pickwick Papers; a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc ; "he kept finding excuses to stay"; "every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job"; "his transparent self-justification was unacceptable"; A defense claim that the accused was somewhere else at the time a crime was committed; (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question; exonerate by means of an alibi; If you have an alibi, you can prove that you were somewhere else when a crime was committed; {f} offer an excuse; make an alibi; find a pretext; The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi; {i} excuse; defense; (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question exonerate by means of an alibi
et alibi: And elsewhere; used to terminate lists of passages in a text; often abbreviated as et al
watertight alibi: an alibi that seems almost impossible to disprove; a perfect alibi
airtight alibi: indisputable explanation
alibied: past of alibi
alibiing: present participle of alibi
alibis: plural of alibi