respondent

respondent (rɪˈspɒndənt)

—n
1.	law a person against whom a petition, esp in a divorce suit, or appeal is brought

—*adj*
2.	a less common word for responsive

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Example sentences

However, you're leading the respondent to the idea that electrons are not part

of the atom.

If you sat each respondent down and asked for a definition of heroism, you

would get a thousand different answers.

Researchers shouldn't say much, the respondent offered, but should instead

simply observe and search for hints indicating wealth.

In this case, for four weeks, law enforcement agents tracked every movement

that respondent made in the vehicle he was driving.

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Matching Quote

"Like propaganda generally, advertising must thus pervade the atmosphere; for it wants, paradoxically, to startle its beholders without really being noticed by them. Its aim is to jolt us, not "into thinking," as in a Brechtian formulation, but specifically away from thought, into quasiautomatic action: "To us," as an executive at Coca-Cola puts it, "communication is message assimilation—the respondent must be shown to behave in some way that proves they [sic] have come to accept the message, not merely to have received it.""

-Mark Crispin Miller

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