Usually means: Person accused in a lawsuit.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. defendant: Merriam-Webster
  2. defendant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. defendant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. defendant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. defendant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Defendant, defendant: Wordnik
  7. defendant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. defendant: Wiktionary
  9. defendant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. defendant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. defendant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. defendant: Dictionary.com
  13. defendant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Defendant (TV series), Defendant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Defendant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. defendant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. defendant: Rhymezone
  18. Defendant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. defendant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. defenDANT: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. defendant: FreeDictionary.org
  22. defendant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. defendant: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. defendant: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. defendant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. defendant: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. defendant: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  5. defendant: Law.com Dictionary
  6. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  9. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  10. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  11. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  12. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  13. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  14. defendant: Legal dictionary
  15. defendant: Financial dictionary
  16. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. defendant: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  3. defendant: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Ethical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Defendant (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. defendant: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive, defending.
noun:  (law) 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.
noun:  (law) In criminal proceedings, the accused.

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