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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈpliːdə/

名詞

pleader (plural pleaders)

1. (law) a person who pleads in court; an advocate [from 13th c.]
   • 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 30:

     “My District's worked by some man at Darjiling, on the strength of a native pleader's false reports. Oh, it's a heavenly place!”

   • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 25:

     ‘Soon after I came out I asked one of the pleaders to have a smoke with me – only a cigarette, mind.’

   • 2003, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick and Harold Tarrant, The Last Days of Socrates, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 40:

     That is the first duty of the juryman, and it is the pleader's duty to speak the truth.

2. (generally) someone who pleads or implores [from 16th c.]

派生語

• special pleader

アナグラム

• pearled, pedaler, predeal, replead