Usually means: Formal request in legal proceedings.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word pleading:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. pleading: Merriam-Webster
  2. pleading: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pleading: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pleading: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pleading: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pleading, pleading: Wordnik
  7. pleading: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pleading: Wiktionary
  9. pleading: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. pleading: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. pleading: Dictionary.com
  12. pleading: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Pleading (Elgar), Pleading (England and Wales), Pleading (United States), Pleading: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Pleading: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. pleading: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. pleading: Rhymezone
  17. Pleading: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. pleading: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. pleading: FreeDictionary.org
  20. pleading: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. pleading: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. pleading: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. pleading: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. pleading: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pleading: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pleading: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pleading: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See plead as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of making a plea.
noun:  (law) A document filed in a lawsuit, particularly a document initiating litigation or responding to the initiation of litigation.
adjective:  That pleads.

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