plaintiff
pronunciation
How to pronounce plaintiff in British English:
UK [ˈpleɪntɪf]
How to pronounce plaintiff in American English:
US [ˈpleɪntɪf]
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- Noun:
- a person who brings an action in a court of law
Word Origin
- plaintiff
- plaintiff: see plague
- plaintiff (n.)
- c. 1400, from Anglo-French pleintif (late 13c.), noun use of Old French plaintif "complaining; wretched, miserable," from plainte (see plaint). Identical with plaintive at first; the form that receded into legal usage retained the older -iff spelling.
Example
- 1. One plaintiff , matt webster , is adopting two undocumented boys .
- 2. A ruling the other way would be a crushing defeat for the plaintiff 's bar .
- 3. Mr sarkozy is unconnected to the angola trial and he is a civil plaintiff in the clearstream case .
- 4. Louisiana 's attorney general 's office has hired plaintiff attorney brad marten of seattle , who represented alaska in the exxon valdez oil-spill litigation .
- 5. Another plaintiff is emie kayama , a freelance writer who married in 2000 .