Meaning & use
Codefendant
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A person who is being sued or prosecuted jointly with another defendant in the same legal case.
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The trial involved three codefendants accused of the same conspiracy.
Her lawyer argued that she had no knowledge of her codefendant's actions.
A note on using this word
Sometimes written with a hyphen as "co-defendant"; both forms are widely accepted in legal writing.
Words with a similar meaning
co-accused
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