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    CO-DEFENDANT

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A defendant who has been joined together with one or more other defendants in a single actionplay

    Synonyms:

    co-defendant; codefendant

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("co-defendant" is a kind of...):

    defendant; suspect (a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "co-defendant"):

    co-respondent; corespondent (the codefendant charged with adultery with the estranged spouse in a divorce proceeding)

    respondent (the codefendant (especially in a divorce proceeding) who is accused of adultery with the corespondent)

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