Respondent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Giving or given as an answer; responsive.
  • adj. Law Being a defendant.
  • n. One who responds.
  • n. Law A defendant, especially in a divorce or equity case.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. person who answers for the defendant in a case before a court. In some legal systems, when one appeals a criminal case, one names the original court as defendant, but the state is the respondent.
  • n. One who responds. See also correspondent.
  • n. Person that participates in research involving questionnaires.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Disposed or expected to respond; answering; according; corresponding.
  • n. One who answers in certain suits or proceedings, generally those which are not according to the course of the common law, as in equity and admiralty causes, in petitions for partition, and the like; -- distinquished from appellant.
  • n. One who maintains a thesis in reply, and whose province it is to refute objections, or overthrow arguments; -- distinguished from opponent.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Answering; responding.
  • Conformable; corresponding.
  • n. One who responds; specifically, in a scholastic disputation, one who maintains a thesis, and defends it against the objections of one or more opponents.
  • n. Specifically One who answers or is called on to answer a petition or an appeal.
  • n. In mathematics, a quantity in the body of a table: opposed to argument, or the regularly varying quantity with which the table is entered.
  • n. A defendant in a lawsuit, now specifically in a divorce case.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. replying
  • n. someone who responds
  • n. the codefendant (especially in a divorce proceeding) who is accused of adultery with the corespondent
    • Equivalent
    responsive   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    codefendant   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    answering    according    corresponding    responsive   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    corespondent    correspondent    despondent   
    Same Context
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    graders    ingenia    electorate    male    Australian   
     
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