Synonyms for defendant
dɪˈfɛn dənt or, esp. in court, -dæntde·fen·dant

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1. defendantnoun

   In civil proceedings, the party responding to the complaint; one who is sued and called upon to make satisfaction for a wrong complained of by another.

   Antonyms:
   plaintiff

2. defendantnoun

   Antonyms:
   prosecutor

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1. defendant

   Synonyms:
   accused, prisoner

   Antonyms:
   prosecutor, accuser, plaintiff

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1. defendant, suspectnoun

   a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused

   Synonyms:
   suspect

   Antonyms:
   complainant, plaintiff

Matched Categories

1. • Law
   • Litigant

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1. List of paraphrases for "defendant":

   respondent, accused, indictee, charged, acknowledgement, reo

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How to use defendant in a sentence?

1. Judge Kaplan:

   This defendant has given some pretty strong reasons to be suspicious.

2. John Roberts:

   When a plaintiff files suit seeking redress for an alleged injury, and the defendant agrees to fully redress that injury, there is no longer a case or controversy.

3. Gaige Grosskreutz:

   Further inferencing from the things I had heard, experienced and witnessed earlier in the night, I thought the defendant was an active shooter.

4. Ashleigh Merchant:

   Normally you’d have a defense attorney asking the questions and the defendant sitting at the defense table, but not in this situation. You’d actually have him speaking directly to the victim. And that very well may be the answer as to why he wants to represent himself.

5. Lori Andrus:

   We [Andrus' San Francisco-based firm] sued the makers of Magic Bullet, a year ago, for the same suit. We settled the suit, and got them to add the warnings to their manuals. 8 MILLION CUISINART FOOD PROCESSORS RECALLED AMID REPORTS OF BROKEN BLADES I suspect that since they [NutriBullet] are a common defendant they’ve starting adding the same warnings.