Defendant

Noun

 * 1)  In civil proceedings, the party responding to the complaint; one who is sued and called upon to make satisfaction for a wrong complained of by another.
 * 2)  In criminal proceedings, the accused.

Related terms

 * respondent

Thesaurus
accessory, accused, bitter-ender, brawler, correspondent, diehard, disputant, dissentient, dissident, intransigent, irreconcilable, last-ditcher, libelee, litigant, litigationist, litigator, naysayer, negativist, noncooperator, objector, obstructionist, obstructive, opposer, oppositionist, panel, parties litigant, party, plaintiff, prisoner, protester, quarreler, resister, respondent, scrapper, suitor, suspect, witness, wrangler

Etymology
From

Translations

 * Arabic: مدعى عليه
 * Bulgarian: обвиняем, ответник
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: obžalovaný, obviněný , žalovaný
 * Finnish:
 * French:, défendeur
 * German: Angeklagter, Angeklagte
 * Hebrew: נאשם (ne'esham), נאשמת (ne'eshemet)


 * Interlingua: accusato
 * Japanese: 被告 (ひこく hikoku)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: réu, ré ; acusado , acusada
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbian: branjenik, branjenica
 * Slovene: obtoženi, obtožena
 * Spanish: