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petitioner:
(plural: ‘petitioners‘)
a petitioner showing her petition
a person who presents a petition;
(a ‘petition’ = a written official document from a person requesting a superior officer, an organisation, etc., for some help, right or favour, or a written document that is presented in a court of law requesting for some justice)
(mostly in British usage) a person who brings a civil case to ask for justice — some right, especially in a divorce case, in a court of law,
Chinese human rights activist petitioners
e.g.
A petitioner is collecting a million signatures in support of health care bill.
All the petitioners are asked to pay a nominal fee along with their petitions for stationery and processing in the states’ high courts.
[For more on how we come across the word ‘petitioner’ in our day-to-day affairs, please visit: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/20997/.]
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