pleader
1Pleader — Plead er, n. [F. plaideur.] 1. One who pleads; one who argues for or against; an advotate. [1913 Webster] So fair a pleader any cause may gain. Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. (Law) One who draws up or forms pleas; the draughtsman of pleas or pleadings …
2pleader — index advocate (counselor), apologist, attorney, claimant, counsel, intermediary, jurist, petitioner …
3pleader — A person whose business it was to draw pleadings. Formerly, when pleading at common law was a highly technical and difficult art, there was a class of men known as special pleaders not at the bar, who held a position intermediate between counsel… …
4pleader — plead ► VERB (past and past part. pleaded or N. Amer., Scottish, or dialect pled) 1) make an emotional appeal. 2) present and argue for (a position), especially in court or in another public context. 3) Law state formally in court whether one is… …
5pleader — noun see plead …
6pleader — /plee deuhr/, n. a person who pleads, esp. at law. [1225 75; ME pleder, plaidour; see PLEAD, ER1] * * * …
7pleader — noun A person, such as an advocate, who pleads …
8pleader — Synonyms and related words: abettor, actuator, advocate, agent, alter ego, alternate, amicus curiae, animator, apologete, apologist, apologizer, attorney, attorney at law, backup, backup man, barrister, barrister at law, cajoler, champion, coax,… …
9pleader — plead·er || plɪËdÉ™(r) n. (Law) advocate, defense lawyer; claimant, one who enters a plea; claim, suit …
10pleader — n. Assertor, vindicator, defender, advocate …
