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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Respondent \Re*spond"ent\ (-ent), adjective [L. respondens, p. pr. of respondere.] Disposed or expected to respond; answering; according; corresponding.
Wealth respondent to payment and contributions. --Bacon.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Respondent \Re*spond"ent\, noun [Cf. F. r['e]pondant.] One who responds. It corresponds in general to defendant. Specifically: (a) (Law) One who answers in certain suits or proceedings, generally those which are not according to the course of the common law, as in equity and admiralty causes, in petitions for partition, and the like; -- distinquished from appellant. (b) One who maintains a thesis in reply, and whose province it is to refute objections, or overthrow arguments; -- distinguished from opponent. --I. Watts.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
respondent
adjective: replying; "an answering glance"; "an answering smile" [syn: {answering}]
noun
1: the codefendant (especially in a divorce proceeding) who is accused of adultery with the corespondent
2: someone who responds [syn: {responder}, {answerer}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
31 Moby Thesaurus words for "respondent": accused, answerer, answering, antiphonal, confutative, correspondent, defendant, echoic, echoing, libelee, prisoner, reacting, reactionary, reactive, reechoing, reflex, reflexive, refluent, refutative, rejoining, replier, replying, responder, responding, responser, responsive, retroactionary, retroactive, returning, revulsive, suspect
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