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summing-up

 noun
     
Related topics: Law
summing-up plural summings-up [countable]
SCL a statement giving the main facts but not the details of something, especially made by a judge at the end of a trial:
In his summing-up, the judge said that it was dangerous to convict on this evidence alone.
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