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PREVAILING PARTY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does prevailing party mean?

• PREVAILING PARTY (noun)
The noun PREVAILING PARTY has 1 sense:

1. the party in a lawsuit who obtains a judgment in their own favor

Familiarity information: PREVAILING PARTY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PREVAILING PARTY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The party in a lawsuit who obtains a judgment in their own favor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("prevailing party" is a kind of...):

litigant; litigator ((law) a party to a lawsuit; someone involved in litigation)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

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