petitioners
Those seeking redress
Petitioners are people who make formal requests, typically to authorities or courts.
Someone who files a petition with a court is a petitioner, as is anyone who signs a petition seeking government action or policy change.
The term appears frequently in legal contexts: The petitioners argued that the law violated their constitutional rights.
In everyday use, petitioners often gather signatures for ballot initiatives or policy changes.
Those seeking selection
- aspirantsThose seeking advancement
- claimantsThose asserting ownership
- nomineesThose proposed for selection
- registrantsThose officially signed up
hopefuls · enrollees · supplicants · appellants · seekers · requesters · filers · submitters
Those initiating lawsuits
- litigantsParties in a lawsuit
- complainantsThose lodging formal grievances
- appellantsThose challenging lower rulings
- claimantsThose asserting ownership
defendants · counsel · attorney · affidavit · testimony · deposition · briefs · amicus
Humble plea for help
- entreatyEarnest, urgent request
- appealFormal review request
- prayerAddress to deity
- beseechingUrgently pleading for something
imploration · intercession · adjuration · exhortation · desperation · pleading · urgency · solicitation
Those publicly opposing something
- demonstratorsPublic protest participants
- marchersThose who walk together
- reformersAdvocates for institutional improvement
- dissentersOpponents of prevailing views
lobbyists · abolitionists · suffragists · environmentalists · feminists · unionists · pacifists · humanitarians
Handwritten name for verification
- grassrootsCommon people as political base
- canvassingSystematic direct voter outreach
- door-to-doorDirectly between residences
- rallyGathering for a cause
march · demonstration · protest · boycott · picketing · flyering · movement · coalition
candidates
Those seeking selection
- aspirantsThose seeking advancement
- claimantsThose asserting ownership
- nomineesThose proposed for selection
registrants · hopefuls · enrollees · supplicants · appellants · seekers · requesters · filers · submitters
plaintiffs
Those initiating lawsuits
- litigantsParties in a lawsuit
- complainantsThose lodging formal grievances
- appellantsThose challenging lower rulings
claimants · defendants · counsel · attorney · affidavit · testimony · deposition · briefs · amicus · subpoena
supplication
Humble plea for help
beseeching · imploration · intercession · adjuration · exhortation · desperation · pleading · urgency · solicitation · importunity
protesters
Those publicly opposing something
- demonstratorsPublic protest participants
- marchersThose who walk together
- reformersAdvocates for institutional improvement
dissenters · lobbyists · abolitionists · suffragists · environmentalists · feminists · unionists · pacifists · humanitarians · agitators
signature
Handwritten name for verification
- grassrootsCommon people as political base
- canvassingSystematic direct voter outreach
- door-to-doorDirectly between residences
rally · march · demonstration · protest · boycott · picketing · flyering · movement · coalition · outreach
- royal courtking, queen, prince, princess, crown
- letter writerspen pal, pen pals, correspondent, scribes, scribe
- legal partiesassignee, assignor, creditor, debtor, beneficiary
- occultistswitches, wizards, sorcerers, sorceresses, warlocks
- requestersrequester, asker, askers, seeker, seekers
- litigation partiesparties, plaintiffs, defendants, litigants, respondents
petitionersauthorities
Those holding official control
respondents · decision-makers · rulers · adjudicators · judges
petitionersgrantors
Those who transfer rights
adjudicators · deniers · refusers · rejecters