Usually means: Person formally requesting something legally.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. petitioner: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. petitioner: Merriam-Webster
  3. petitioner: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. petitioner: Collins English Dictionary
  5. petitioner: Vocabulary.com
  6. Petitioner, petitioner: Wordnik
  7. petitioner: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. petitioner: Wiktionary
  9. Petitioner, petitioner: Dictionary.com
  10. Petitioner: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Petitioner: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. petitioner: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. petitioner: Rhymezone
  14. Petitioner: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. petitioner: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. petitioner: FreeDictionary.org
  17. petitioner: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. petitioner: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. petitioner: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. petitioner: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. petitioner: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. petitioner: Legal dictionary
  7. petitioner: Financial dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. petitioner: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. petitioner: Medical dictionary

(Note: See petition as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (law) Someone who presents a petition to a court.
noun:  Someone who presents a petition to some person in authority.

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