corespondent
- noun
- /ˌkoʊrɪˈspɒndənt/
- NSFW
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co-demandado
- She felt betrayed when she discovered that the corespondent in her divorce was someone she considered a friend.
Examples
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In the divorce proceedings, the court named John as the corespondent, alleging he had an affair with the plaintiff's spouse.
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Well, after all, my dear a corespondent must be something of an artist.
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And you thought I was your corespondent?
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And naming Charles as corespondent.
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But don't you think that a corespondent ought to come to work quietly?
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Are you the corespondent?
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He has all the earmarks of a hired corespondent.
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After the scandal was revealed, many began to speculate about the identity of the corespondent in the high-profile divorce case.
Synonyms
A person named in a divorce case as the other partner in an affair
Surface Forms
Morphology
corespondent = respondent (opaque) = co + respondent
Although formed by the productive prefix 'co-' + 'respondent', the headword denotes a specialized legal role (an alleged adulterer named in a divorce case) that is not directly inferable by an average B1 learner.
Etymology
Corespondent comes from the beginning co- meaning 'together' and the word respondent meaning 'one who answers'. In law a corespondent was someone named to 'answer' a charge along with the spouse, so in divorce cases it means the person accused of the affair.
