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complainant

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A plaintiff.
  • noun A prosecuting witness in a criminal case.
  • noun A person who files a formal accusation or brings a formal charge.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • 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.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who makes complaint.
  • noun One who commences a legal process by a complaint.
  • noun The party suing in equity, answering to the plaintiff at common law.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun law the party that brings a civil lawsuit against another; the plaintiff
  • noun One who makes complaint.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person who brings an action in a court of law

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Old French complaignant, present participle of complaindre.

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Examples

  • “Ignore what the documents and the signature says, the complainant is actually whomever I wish it to be”.

    Mark Steyn Debates Complainants : Law is Cool 2008

  • For the above reasons I am confident it will be the result that the complainant is not happy with.

    Police Complaints; How Soon Is Now? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • I particularly enjoy the notion that somehow the complainant is to blame ... he's an opportunist, but he should've been immediately dismissed in this instance.

    Agatha Christie Banned in Ohio Bill Crider 2007

  • From his complaint: That they have in cooperation with the other defendants and their attorneys conceived the plan of branding the complainant as a lunatic and have worked in harmony with the officers of ASCAP and MPPA (Music Publishers Protective Association) to oust the complainant from the W.P.A. and have caused him to starve.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • From his complaint: That they have in cooperation with the other defendants and their attorneys conceived the plan of branding the complainant as a lunatic and have worked in harmony with the officers of ASCAP and MPPA (Music Publishers Protective Association) to oust the complainant from the W.P.A. and have caused him to starve.

    Faire Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • I guess actually, the complainant is more properly an Entrepreneur, despite his institutional credential.

    Agatha Christie Banned in Ohio Bill Crider 2007

  • If your complainant is hearing her bark, I suggest some sort of psychological counseling may be of more use to this person than the services of your department.

    10/01/2002 - 11/01/2002 John 2002

  • The complainant is Demetrius, a silversmith, a principal man, it is likely, of the trade, and one that would be thought to understand and consult the interests of it more than others of the company.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

  • Isn’t a complainant is the person under whose name a complaint is lodged?

    Mark Steyn Debates Complainants : Law is Cool 2008

  • Assuming that there were no problems in having a trial (the complainant was available, usually the biggest hurdle) then why on earth did they accept a plea to that?

    The Reality Behind The Crime Figues « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

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