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pleader

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈpliːdə/Part of speech nounSorted adeelprStarts with PEnds with R0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a lawyer who pleads cases in court

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • “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!”
  • ‘Soon after I came out I asked one of the pleaders to have a smoke with me – only a cigarette, mind.’
  • That is the first duty of the juryman, just as it is the pleader's duty to speak the truth.

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