respondent
a person who responds or makes reply.
Law. a defendant, especially in appellate and divorce proceedings.
giving a response; answering; responsive.
Law. being a respondent.
Psychology. of or relating to behavior that occurs consistently in response to a particular stimulus.
Obsolete. corresponding.
Origin of respondent
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How to use respondent in a sentence
Nearly 500 Olympic volunteers withdrew, and one poll found fewer than 7 percent of respondents thought Mori was qualified to continue in his role.
Japan Olympics chief who said women talk too much will resign over remarks, reports say | Simon Denyer, Julia Mio Inuma | February 11, 2021 | Washington PostMany respondents were spooked by the idea of allowing others access to their brain’s inner workings.
People are concerned about tech tinkering with our minds | Laura Sanders | February 11, 2021 | Science News For StudentsThe idea of allowing companies, or governments, or even health care workers access to the brain’s inner workings spooked many respondents.
Can privacy coexist with technology that reads and changes brain activity? | Laura Sanders | February 11, 2021 | Science NewsIn this experiment, people were not particularly uncomfortable asking sensitive questions, and the respondents’ comfort levels were fairly similar across the three conditions.
Can I Ask You a Ridiculously Personal Question? (Ep. 451) | Stephen J. Dubner | February 11, 2021 | FreakonomicsEighty-four percent of respondents said they were satisfied.
A brutal, isolating year leads to baffling battles between good and evil | Philip Bump | February 4, 2021 | Washington Post
The judge did rule that one respondent crossed the line by implying that Im Tirtzu espouses Nazi race theory.
The 'Defenders of Zionism' Lose Their Case | Gershom Gorenberg | September 9, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBut rarely does it cover the respondent in even short-term glory.
Marco Rubio And The State of the Union Response Speech Curse | Michelle Cottle | February 12, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe most obvious: no matter how charismatic a respondent may be, he or she is not the president.
Marco Rubio And The State of the Union Response Speech Curse | Michelle Cottle | February 12, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe more promising the respondent, the higher the expectations and the greater the potential for disappointment.
Marco Rubio And The State of the Union Response Speech Curse | Michelle Cottle | February 12, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe younger the respondent, the lower the support for whaling.
I’ll Have the Whale, Please: Japan’s Unsustainable Whale Hunts | Jake Adelstein, Nathalie-Kyoko Stucky | February 5, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIt really raises the question whether a man who has wrongly been named as co-respondent is in honour bound to marry the defendant.
When Winter Comes to Main Street | Grant Martin OvertonSee also the allusion in Sophistês (to the appearance of the younger Sokrates as respondent), p. 218 B.
He depends upon the acquiescence of the respondent for every step taken in advance.
That the term defendant is, when alone, synonymous with respondent.
How to Catalogue a Library | Henry B. (Henry Benjamin) WheatleyMr. Evans and Mr. Palmer were for the appellants, and Mr. Hawkins and Mr. Bulwer for the respondent.
Norfolk Annals | Charles Mackie
British Dictionary definitions for respondent
/ (rɪˈspɒndənt) /
law a person against whom a petition, esp in a divorce suit, or appeal is brought
a less common word for responsive
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