litigant
Other forms: litigants
A litigant is someone involved in a lawsuit. The person who sues and the person who gets sued are both litigants.
To litigate is to use the legal system, and to be litigious is to be prone to filing lawsuits. Litigant refers to someone who is part of a lawsuit. If you sue a doctor, you’re a litigant, as is the doctor. If your landlord sues you, you’re both litigants. A company can be a litigant too. Litigants require lawyers. In fact, without litigants, lawyers would have nothing to do. Lucky for them, there are many litigants in the world.
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(law) a party to a lawsuit; someone involved in litigation“plaintiffs and defendants are both litigants”synonyms: litigatortypes:defendant, suspecta person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accusedfilera party who files a notice with a law courtprevailing partythe party in a lawsuit who obtains a judgment in their own favoraccuseda defendant in a criminal proceedingco-defendant, codefendanta defendant who has been joined together with one or more other defendants in a single actiontype of:partya person involved in legal proceedings
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