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# complainant

«complainant» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who makes an official complaint or brings a case…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a complainant, complainants)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (law) A complainant is a person who makes an official complaint or brings a case to a court, saying they have been wronged. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/complainant/#m1)

2) (formal) Anyone who makes a formal complaint, for example to a company or school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/complainant/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A formal, legal word met in news about trials and complaints. It tells the reader who says they were harmed. Phrases: «the complainant said», «the complainant's lawyer».

### examples

- The complainant told the court what had happened. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/complainant/#x1)
- The judge listened to both the complainant and the accused. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/complainant/#x2)
- The complainant asked for the money to be returned. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/complainant/#x3)
- The company wrote back to each complainant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/complainant/#x4)
- In the case, the complainant was a shop owner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/complainant/#x5)
- The complainant's name was kept secret. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/complainant/#x6)

### note

Formal; in daily speech say «the person who complained». Not the same as «complaint» (what is said) or «complainer» (someone who moans a lot, informal). The other side in a criminal case is «the defendant» or «the accused».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «complainant» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/complainant/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.