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complainant

[ UK /kəmplˈe‍ɪnənt/ ]
[ US /kəmˈpɫeɪnənt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who brings an action in a court of law

How To Use complainant In A Sentence

  • Less serious complaints could be dealt by agreement with the complainant, internally or through mediation.
  • The evidence in chief of the complainant was given at trial in the form of a video of her interview in the police station.
  • The complainant was an officious intermeddler, a busybody, the town scold, an anti-Christian activist named Darren Lund who had an axe to grind, and Andreachuk gave it to him. Ezra Levant: June 2008 Archives
  • It may be correct to say that complainants in general exhibit a wide variety of behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
  • All of this activity allegedly took place in the presence of both complainants and the accused.
  • It may be correct to say that complainants in general exhibit a wide variety of behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
  • In this context it would mean that the legitimate concerns of the complainant that the alleged misconduct should be properly scrutinised by the professional body, would be ignored.
  • In its surrejoinder the defendant recalls that the charges against the complainant have been proved.
  • In every case of a petition for the assess - ment of damages, or for a jury, the said city may offer in court and consent in writing that a sum specified may be awarded as damages to the compkainant; and if the com - plainant shall not accept the same within ten days after he has received notice of such offer and shall not finally recover a greater sum than the one offered, not including interest on the sum recovered in damages from the date of the offer, the city shall be entitled to recover its costs after said date, and the complainant if he recover damages shall be allowed costs only to the date of the offer. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
  • Another complainant says: 'I lost a lot of blood to the point where my life was in danger. Times, Sunday Times
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