Meaning & use
litigant
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a person or party involved in a lawsuit, either as the one suing or the one being sued
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Both litigants agreed to settle the dispute out of court.
The judge asked each litigant to summarize their case before the trial began.
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'Litigant' is a neutral legal term that covers both the plaintiff and the defendant in a case, unlike 'plaintiff,' which refers only to the one who filed the suit.
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