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

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King