respondent
答辩人,应答者,答复者,被告人
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Definitions
- 1
- : a person who responds or makes reply.
- : Law. a defendant, especially in appellate and divorce proceedings.
- 1
- : giving a response; answering; responsive.
- : Law. being a respondent.
- : Psychology. of or relating to behavior that occurs consistently in response to a particular stimulus.
- : Obsolete. corresponding.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Nearly 500 Olympic volunteers withdrew, and one poll found fewer than 7 percent of respondents thought Mori was qualified to continue in his role.
Many respondents were spooked by the idea of allowing others access to their brain’s inner workings.
The idea of allowing companies, or governments, or even health care workers access to the brain’s inner workings spooked many respondents.
In this experiment, people were not particularly uncomfortable asking sensitive questions, and the respondents’ comfort levels were fairly similar across the three conditions.
Eighty-four percent of respondents said they were satisfied.
The judge did rule that one respondent crossed the line by implying that Im Tirtzu espouses Nazi race theory.
But rarely does it cover the respondent in even short-term glory.
The most obvious: no matter how charismatic a respondent may be, he or she is not the president.
The more promising the respondent, the higher the expectations and the greater the potential for disappointment.
The younger the respondent, the lower the support for whaling.
It really raises the question whether a man who has wrongly been named as co-respondent is in honour bound to marry the defendant.
See also the allusion in Sophistês (to the appearance of the younger Sokrates as respondent), p. 218 B.