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defense
(Sports) The means or tactics used in trying to stop the opposition from scoring.
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  1. (Sports) The means or tactics used in trying to stop the opposition from scoring.
  2. The team or those players on the team attempting to stop the opposition from scoring.
  3. Collectively, the attorneys representing a defendant and any laypeople assisting them in their efforts, particularly in a criminal trial. In litigation, generally a factual denial or an assertion of facts or law that counters or negates a claim made by the other party. See also self defense. Collectively, the attorneys representing a defendant and any laypeople assisting them in their efforts, particularly in a criminal trial. In litigation, generally a factual denial or an assertion of facts or law that counters or negates a claim made by the other party. See also self defense.
respondent
One who responds.
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  1. One who responds.
  2. (Law) The defending party in certain legal proceedings, as in a case brought by petition.
  3. (Law) The party who responds to a petition, as in equity, divorce, or appellate proceedings; the defendant in such proceedings
litigant
A party to a lawsuit
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  1. A party to a lawsuit
appellant
One who appeals a court decision.
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  1. One who appeals a court decision.
  2. (Law) a litigant or party that is making an appeal in court.
  3. A party who appeals a court or administrative agency’s decision. See also appellee. A party who appeals a court or administrative agency’s decision. See also appellee.
offender
A person who commits an offense against the law, a lawbreaker.
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  1. A person who commits an offense against the law, a lawbreaker.
  2. One who gives or causes offense.
party
A gathering for social entertainment, or the entertainment itself, often of a specific nature
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  1. A gathering for social entertainment, or the entertainment itself, often of a specific nature
  2. A group of people who have gathered to participate in an activity:
  3. A group of soldiers selected for a duty or mission:
accused
A person who has been arrested or formally charged by an indictment, information, or presentment with a crime.
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  1. A person who has been arrested or formally charged by an indictment, information, or presentment with a crime.
  2. A person who is blamed for a wrongdoing.
  3. The defendant in a criminal case.
respondent
One who responds.
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  1. One who responds.
  2. A person who responds
  3. (Law) The defending party in certain legal proceedings, as in a case brought by petition.
Find another word for defendant. In this page you can discover 15 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for defendant, like: the accused, defense, respondent, litigant, appellant, offender, prisoner at the bar, party, accuser, complainant and plaintiff.

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  • When a divorce is granted, the defendant is not permitted to marry other than the plaintiff for three years, unless the plaintiff dies.

  • When a defendant was of rank superior to that of the plaintiff, distress had to be preceded by troscad (=fasting).

  • 22 Similarly in Job the bne Elohim, sons of God, appear as attendants of God, and amongst them Satan, still in his role of public prosecutor, the defendant being Job.

  • The judges at Babylon seem to have formed a superior court to those of provincial towns, but a defendant might elect to answer the charge before the local court and refuse to plead at Babylon.

  • A libel suit he instituted in London against Sir Valentine Chirol for statements made in Indian Unrest (1910) ended in a verdict for the defendant with costs (Feb.

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