Definition of respondent

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Respondent (n.) One who answers in certain suits or proceedings, generally those which are not according to the course of the common law, as in equity and admiralty causes, in petitions for partition, and the like; -- distinquished from appellant..

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Co-respondent :: Co-respondent (n.) One who is called upon to answer a summons or other proceeding jointly with another.
Consign :: Consign (v. t.) To send or address (by bill of lading or otherwise) to an agent or correspondent in another place, to be cared for or sold, or for the use of such correspondent; as, to consign a cargo or a ship; to consign goods..
Respondent :: Respondent (n.) One who responds. It corresponds in general to defendant.
Authentic :: Authentic (n.) Having as immediate relation to the tonic, in distinction from plagal, which has a correspondent relation to the dominant in the octave below the tonic..
Square :: Square (a.) Exactly suitable or correspondent; true; just.
Epistolean :: Epistolean (n.) One who writes epistles; a correspondent.
Adjust :: Adjust (v. t.) To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a standard..
Consignment :: Consignment (n.) The act of consigning or sending property to an agent or correspondent in another place, as for care, sale, etc..
Correspondent :: Correspondent (n.) One who carries on commercial intercourse by letter or telegram with a person or firm at a distance.
Correspondent :: Correspondent (n.) One with whom intercourse is carried on by letter.
Congruous :: Congruous (a.) Suitable or concordant; accordant; fit; harmonious; correspondent; consistent.
Matchable :: Matchable (a.) Capable of being matched; comparable on equal conditions; adapted to being joined together; correspondent.
Honor :: Honor (n.) A nice sense of what is right, just, and true, with course of life correspondent thereto; strict conformity to the duty imposed by conscience, position, or privilege..
Accommodate :: Accommodate (v. t.) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances..
Correspondence :: Correspondence (n.) The letters which pass between correspondents.
Responsive :: Responsive (a.) Suited to something else; correspondent.
Sympathy :: Sympathy (n.) Feeling corresponding to that which another feels; the quality of being affected by the affection of another, with feelings correspondent in kind, if not in degree; fellow-feeling..
Duplicate :: Duplicate (n.) That which exactly resembles or corresponds to something else; another, correspondent to the first; hence, a copy; a transcript; a counterpart..
Agreeable :: Agreeable (a.) Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; -- followed by to, rarely by with..
Opponent :: Opponent (n.) One who opposes in a disputation, argument, or other verbal controversy; specifically, one who attacks some theirs or proposition, in distinction from the respondent, or defendant, who maintains it..
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