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perquisition

search (police search of premises)

noun pehr-kee-zee-SYOHN Rare

Usage Note

Perquisition specifically denotes an official police search of a property, equivalent to 'search' or 'raid' in legal English. It almost always appears in the phrase perquisition à domicile or as une perquisition judiciaire. The associated verb is perquisitionner (to search premises), used intransitively: la police a perquisitionné.

Examples

"La perquisition a duré plusieurs heures."

Natural Translation

The search lasted several hours.

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