Thesaurus results for PETITIONER

petitioner

noun

pə-ˈti-sh(ə-)nər

Definition of petitioner

as in solicitor

one who asks earnestly for a favor or gift the lottery winner was beset by a horde of petitioners, all of whom thought that they were most deserving of his charity

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Recent Examples of petitioner The petitioners argued that Kenya’s healthcare system is already overstretched and may be unable to manage foreign Ebola patients safely. — ABC News, 22 June 2026 Secretary of State Shirley Weber, a Democrat, said Wednesday night that petitioners collected more than the roughly 875,000 signatures needed to place the original proposal before voters. — Sophie Austin, Fortune, 21 June 2026 Secretary of State Shirley Weber, a Democrat, said Wednesday night that petitioners collected more than the roughly 875,000 signatures needed to place the original proposal before voters. — Sophie Austin, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026 While welcoming the sales tax proposal, Omer, the petitioner in the legal case, and Khan, who is representing her, are pressing for the complete eradication of the entire taxation regime surrounding menstrual items, including additional levies on raw materials used to make sanitary pads. — Sana Noor Haq, CNN Money, 16 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for petitioner

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Noun

In the early 1970s, in the midst of an oil crisis, my father ran a solicitors' firm.

— Rupert Lee-Browne, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Cohen asked the deputy city solicitor about use of force cases.

— Mike Hellgren, CBS News, 1 July 2026

Definition of solicitor

Noun

These fees place autopsy reports out of reach for most requesters, including journalists and researchers like me.

— Jonah Walters, The Conversation, 24 June 2026
One of their tactics was to charge record requesters not just for copying costs but for the time workers spent assembling the records.

— U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2026

Definition of requester

Noun

And as happens with the testimonies of the suppliants at the Asclepieion, the stelae ferry the feelings and names of these distant others across the ages to us.

— Teju Cole, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
It was thought that Betelgeuse was bigger than the orbit of Jupiter in our Solar System, but recent studies suggest that the red suppliant star is about a third less than that at about 750 the radius of our Sun.

— Jamie Carter, Forbes, 16 June 2021