complainant

complainant

English

Alternative forms

• complainaunt (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

From Old French complaignant, present participle of complaindre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəmˈpleɪnənt/

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Noun

complainant (plural complainants)

1. (law) The party that brings a civil lawsuit against another; the plaintiff.
2. (law) An alleged victim in a criminal investigation or trial.
3. One who makes complaint.
   • 1708-1714 Jeremy Collier, Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain

     Eager complainants […] in the dispute.

   • 1962 August, “Let's have plain speaking”, in Modern Railways, page 73:

     The Southern Region takes, in the main, a candid line with its public. [...] An ill-informed attempt to blackguard the railway publicly is likely to see the complainant put politely—but very firmly—in his place.

Translations

plaintiff

Bulgarian: тъжител (bg) m (tǎžitel), ищец (bg) m (ištec) Esperanto: plendanto Finnish: kantaja (fi) French: plaignant (fr) m Georgian: მოსარჩელე (mosarčele) Hungarian: felperes (hu) Irish: gearánach m, gearánaí m, éilitheoir m Maori: kaiwhakapae Polish: powód (pl) m Russian: исте́ц (ru) m (istéc) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: жалилац m, подносилац жалбе m Roman: žalilac (sh) m, podnosilac žalbe m, podnosioc žalbe m Swahili: mlalamishi (sw) Swedish: klagande (sv) c Telugu: ఫిర్యాది (te) (phiryādi) Welsh: achwynydd m, achwynwr m