Plaintiff comes most immediately from Middle English plaintif, itself an Anglo-French borrowing tracing back to plaint, meaning "lamentation." (The English word plaintive is also related.) …

/ ˈpleɪn·tɪf / Add to word list a person who accuses someone else in a law case of having done something illegal (Definition of plaintiff from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © …

A plaintiff (Π in legal shorthand) is the party who initiates a lawsuit (also known as an action) before a court. By doing so, the plaintiff seeks a legal remedy.

Plaintiff, the party who brings a legal action or in whose name it is brought—as opposed to the defendant, the party who is being sued. The term corresponds to petitioner in equity and civil …

In a courtroom, the plaintiff is the person or group who is accusing another person or group of some wrongdoing. If you’re the plaintiff, you are claiming that a law was broken, and you’re in …

Plaintiff definition: a person who brings suit in a court (defendant ).. See examples of PLAINTIFF used in a sentence.

Plaintiff is the party who initiates a lawsuit in a civil case by filing a complaint against the defendant or, in some proceedings, the respondent (depending on the type of civil case).

Definition of plaintiff noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

one who brings a legal action or suit in a court (opposed to defendant). Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, …

A plaintiff is a person who brings a legal case against someone in a court of law. ...the lead plaintiff of the lawsuit.