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Meaning of alibi

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  alibi
      n 1: (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show
           that he or she could not have committed the crime in
           question
      2: 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" [syn: {excuse}, {alibi},
         {exculpation}, {self-justification}]
      v 1: exonerate by means of an alibi

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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