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Noun(1) a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused(2) a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law(3) the person being sued or accused(4) accused

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(1) The case had taken a long time to get to court as the defendant had pleaded not guilty.(2) The terms of the order were not explained to the defendant by the magistrates in open court.(3) the defendant tried to claim that it was self-defence(4) The prosecution say that the defendant was a man who could be violent in a calm and calculated way.(5) It is odd that you can get an acquittal, without the defendant even having to appear in court.(6) The criminal law ought not to be less favourable to a defendant than the civil law.(7) The court was told the defendant was stopped by police because he was not wearing a seat belt.(8) In fact the tenant was not treated less favourably than a defendant in the High Court.(9) Each case will turn on its own facts but in my view the claimants are more likely to succeed than the defendants .(10) Both the claimants and the defendants are in business for the purpose of making a profit.(11) All claimants claim that there was a conspiracy by the defendants to injure them by unlawful means.(12) The case was adjourned so that all three defendants could appear in court together.(13) The claimant and all three defendants were represented at the hearing of the application.(14) The defendants had approached and accused the police of kicking the girl, he said.(15) What was done was in direct response to a hazardous situation created by the defendants .(16) If the conduct of the defendants is not an issue in a defamation trial, what on earth is?