Associations to the word «Respondent»

Wiktionary

RESPONDENT, noun. (legal) person who answers for the defendant in a case before a court. In some legal systems, when one appeals a criminal case, one names the original court as defendant, but the state is the respondent.
RESPONDENT, noun. One who responds. See also correspondent.
RESPONDENT, noun. Person that participates in research involving questionnaires.
RESPONDENT, adjective. Disposed or expected to respond; answering; according; corresponding.

Dictionary definition

RESPONDENT, noun. The codefendant (especially in a divorce proceeding) who is accused of adultery with the corespondent.
RESPONDENT, noun. Someone who responds.
RESPONDENT, adjective. Replying; "an answering glance"; "an answering smile".

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin