pleader

English

Etymology

Partly from Middle English pleder, pledere, equivalent to plead +‎ -er; and partly from Middle English pledour, plaidour, from Anglo-Norman plaidur, pledour, Old French plaidëor, pledëor.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpliːdə/

Noun

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.’
(generally) someone who pleads or implores [from 16th c.]

Translations

person who pleads in court

Irish: gearánaí m, agróir m

Anagrams

pearled, pedaler, predeal, replead

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