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litigant

noun lit·i·gant \ˈli-ti-gənt\

law : a person who is involved in a lawsuit : someone who is suing another person or is being sued by another person

Full Definition of LITIGANT

: one engaged in a lawsuit

— litigant adjective

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First Known Use of LITIGANT

1659

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actionable, alienable, carceral, chattel, complicity, decedent, larceny, malfeasance, modus operandi

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