Lexic.us

Definition of Bring in

1. Verb. Bring in a new person or object into a familiar environment. "The new secretary introduced a nasty rumor"

2. Verb. Earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages. "They bring in the money "; "He clears $5,000 each month"

3. Verb. Be sold for a certain price. "The old print fetched a high price at the auction"

4. Verb. Submit (a verdict) to a court.

5. Verb. Transmit. "The microphone brought in the sounds from the room next to mine"

Definition of Bring in

1. Verb. To introduce a new rule, law, or system of organisation. ¹

2. Verb. To introduce a person or group of people to an organisation. ¹

3. Verb. To earn money for a company or for the family. ¹

4. Verb. To return a verdict in a court of law. ¹

5. Verb. To move something indoors. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bring In

briner briners brines bring bring-and-buy bring a knife to a gunfight bring about bring around bring back bring down

bring down the house bring forth bring forward bring home bring home the bacon bring in (current term) bring it bring it weak bring off bring on

bring one's arse to an anchor bring oneself bring out bring outside bring owls to Athens bring round bring someone to book bring something to its knees bring the lumber bring through

Literary usage of Bring in

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lex Parliamentaria Americana: Elements of the Law and Practice of by Luther Stearns Cushing (1874)
"The most usual form of authorizing the introduction of a bill is an order or resolution, that leave be given to bring in a bill for a purpose specified, ..."

2. Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and Rules of the House of Representatives by Clarence A. Cannon, United States Congress. House, Thomas Jefferson (1919)
"BILLS, LEAVE TO bring in. §891. Obsolete pro- J When a Member desires to bring in a bill on any subject, he states to the House in diction of bills. , ii i_ ..."

3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1873)
"And every coroner and juror is flatly perjured who does not bring in this verdict, where there are not other proofs of insanity. ..."

4. The Practice of the Courts of King's Bench, and Common Pleas in Personal ...by William Tidd, Francis Joseph Troubat, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Great Britain Court of King's Bench by William Tidd, Francis Joseph Troubat, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1828)
"But in the Common Pleas and Exchequer, though the rule to bring in the body ... SP served with a copy of the rule to bring in ..."

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