Defendant is valid Scrabble Word

Is defendant a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is defendant valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
16 points in WWF

Definitions for DEFENDANT in dictionary:

NOUN:

a person accused or sued
an individual, company, or institution sued or accused in a court of law
person accused of a crime
One who defends; a defender.
A person required to make answer in an action or suit; -- opposed to plaintiff.
a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused

ADJECTIVE:

Serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive.
Making defense.
making a defence

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a person required to make answer in a legal action or suit â€” compare plaintiff

Words related to DEFENDANT

defendants15

Words that contain DEFENDANT

defendants15 codefendant18 codefendants19

How to use DEFENDANT in a sentence

If the offense is punishable with death or state prison for life, the state has in Minnesota seven peremptory challenges and the defendant twenty.
He would remind the jury that only a few weeks ago he stood there as the advocate of a powerful company, then represented by the present defendant.
The law in its wisdom did not permit the defendant to testify in his own behalf.
The defendant in the case at bar had been locked up for six weeks.
Defendant replied, that it was easier, and she preferred that way to the other.
What is the result to the defendant in the former case, if he is convicted? 18.
The receiver of the stolen book came forward, with much assurance, as defendant, and modest Dr.
Originally, therefore, the defendant in the suit was put to his oath, and if on oath he denied the debt or the crime with which he was charged, he was of course acquitted.
The defendant had received some hundred sheep from plaintiff to feed and tend at an agreed price.
Then he silenced both parties with a word, and gave judgment for the defendant.

When defendant was charged, she stated that the reason why she attempted to take her life was she had neither home nor friends.
The combat was then the privilege of the defendant, because he charged the witness with an attempt by perjury to take away his right.
The husband and wife had both been made parties defendant to the suit under the Massachusetts practice.
In meeting such attacks the defendant must do his fighting without weapons.
All the costs and burdens of the contest are on the defendant.
Two men once appeared before him, the one as plaintiff, the other as defendant.
Your decision may affect more than the life of this defendant.
I knew this defendant wanted to sell the girls, as she asked me if I knew any woman who wanted to buy them.
The whole battery of technical delays was at the command of the defendant.
The Cadi took his seat gravely, and an officer introduced first Ali Cogia, the plaintiff, and then the merchant who was the defendant.
Even though the defendant should be guilty, there is not sufficient evidence in the hands of the government to secure a conviction.
In early societies, justice is, in many respects, an affair to be settled between the kindreds of the plaintiff, so to speak, and the defendant.
Sigismonda argues her case like counsel for the defendant.
He carefully related the applicable laws and requested that the defendant, Belmont University, be ordered to grant a fair, open hearing to the plaintiff, Diana.
It was an outrage for the judge to refuse to hold that if the defendant believed she had a right to vote, and voted in good faith in that belief, she was not guilty of the charge.
But it is said that the defendant is not to pay the costs, and that he is to be let out of prison.
If the defendant does not appear on the day of trial, the plaintiff may proceed to prove his demand and take judgment.

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