an official whose job is to discover the cause of any sudden, violent or suspicious death by holding an inquest 验尸官 The coroner issued a burial certificate. 验尸官出具了入殓证明书。 The coroner ordered an investigation into the man's death. 验尸官要求对这个人的死亡进行调查。 The coroner recorded a verdict of accidental death. 验尸官判定这是一次意外死亡。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- deputy
- county
- issue something
- order something
- determine something
- …
- a coroner’s court
- a coroner’s inquest
- a coroner’s report
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Word OriginMiddle English: from Anglo-Norman French coruner, from corune ‘a crown, ’ coruner (verb), Old French corone (noun), coroner (verb), from Latin corona ‘wreath, chaplet’; reflecting the Latin title custos placitorum coronae ‘guardian of the pleas of the Crown’.