Dictionary

pleader en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈpliːdə/ (UK)

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.

Meanings

1. a person who pleads in court; an advocate
   • ‘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, published 2005, page 25:
   • That is the first duty of the juryman, just as it is the pleader's duty to speak the truth. 1954, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick, “Socrates on Trial: The Apology”, in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics), Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, →OCLC, page 20:
   • “My District's worked by some man at Darjiling, on the strength of a native pleader's false reports. Oh, it's a heavenly place!” 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 30:
2. (qualifier:generally) someone who pleads or implores

Forms

Deriveds

counterpleader · special pleader · repleader

Translations (5)

ru проситель (someone who pleads or implores) · ru ходатай (someone who pleads or implores) · bg адвокат (person who pleads in court) · ga gearánaí (person who pleads in court) · ga agróir (person who pleads in court)