Respondentnoun
(legal) The 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.
Respondentnoun
One who responds.
Respondentnoun
The person replying to a questionnaire.
Respondentadjective
Disposed or expected to respond; answering; according; corresponding.
Respondentadjective
Disposed or expected to respond; answering; according; corresponding.
Respondentnoun
One who responds. It corresponds in general to defendant.
Respondentnoun
the codefendant (especially in a divorce proceeding) who is accused of adultery with the corespondent
Respondentnoun
someone who responds
Respondentadjective
replying;
Respondentnoun
a party against whom a petition is filed, especially one in an appeal or a divorce case.
Respondentnoun
a person who replies to something, especially one supplying information for a questionnaire or responding to an advertisement
Respondentadjective
in the position of a party defending against a petition
Respondentadjective
replying to something
Respondentadjective
involving or denoting a response, especially a conditioned reflex, to a specific stimulus.
Respondent
A respondent is a person who is called upon to issue a response to a communication made by another. The term is used in legal contexts, in survey methodology, and in psychological conditioning.
Informantnoun
One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.
Informantnoun
(linguistics) A native speaker who acts as a linguistic reference for a language being studied. The informant demonstrates native pronunciation, provides grammaticality judgments regarding linguistic well-formedness, and may also explain cultural references and other important contextual information.
Informantnoun
One who, or that which, informs, animates, or vivifies.
Informantnoun
One who imparts information or instruction.
Informantnoun
One who offers an accusation; an informer. See Informer.
Informantnoun
a person who supplies information
Informantnoun
someone who sees an event and reports what happened
Informantnoun
a person who gives information to another.
Informantnoun
another term for informer
Informantnoun
a person from whom a linguist or anthropologist obtains information about language, dialect, or culture.
Informant
An informant (also called an informer) is a person who provides privileged information about a person or organization to an agency. The term is usually used within the law enforcement world, where they are officially known as confidential human source (CHS), or criminal informants (CI).