Complainant

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  • noun. A plaintiff.
  • noun. A prosecuting witness in a criminal case.
  • noun. A person who files a formal accusation or brings a formal charge.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One who makes a complaint; a complainer.
  • noun. Hence One who suffers from ill health.
  • noun. In law, one who prosecutes by complaint, or commences a legal process against another; a plaintiff; a prosecutor; in particular, the plaintiff in a suit in equity, or one on whose complaint a criminal prosecution is asked for.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who makes complaint.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. One who commences a legal process by a complaint.
  • noun. The party suing in equity, answering to the plaintiff at common law.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. the party that brings a civil lawsuit against another; the plaintiff
  • noun. One who makes complaint.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a person who brings an action in a court of law
    • Word Usage
    "“Ignore what the documents and the signature says, the complainant is actually whomever I wish it to be”."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    litigant  litigator  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    petitioner  suer  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    accuser  breach of promise  brickbat  confrere  cowbird  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    accusant  accuser  allegator  appellant  bellyacher  
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