pleader
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈpliːdə/
pleader (plural pleaders)
- (law) a person who pleads in court; an advocate [from 13th c.]
- 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 25:
- ‘Soon after I came out I asked one of the pleaders to have a smoke with me – only a cigarette, mind.’
- 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 25:
- (generally) someone who pleads or implores [from 16th c.]
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