injured party
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- noun
- /ˈɪnʤərd ˈpɑrti/
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parte lesionada
- The class action device is an important tool that enables similarly injured parties to litigate their claims.
- compensate injured parties
- injured party's damages
Examples
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As mentioned above, the injured party may start a civil action or abate the nuisance.
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In a car accident, the injured party may file a lawsuit to cover their medical expenses.
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And I am the injured party.
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After all, I am the injured party, when you come to think about it.
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I mean, who's the injured party here, Guy?
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No, you're the injured party.
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Who's the injured party here?
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In such cases, close blood relatives of the injured party demanded and accepted such payments.
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Many losses are never reported to state and federal agencies because the injured parties often settle privately.
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The offending party will also be required to pay for the injured party's damages.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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A person who suffers harm, injury, loss because of an accident, crime or trick
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A person who is injured, killed, or missing in a dangerous event
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'injured' (physically harmed) modifies 'party' (a person or participant in proceedings), yielding a participant who has been harmed. Although 'party' also has a social-gathering sense, the legal/participant sense is common cross-linguistically in this construction, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent senses will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Injured party is a legal phrase made from two plain words: injured meaning 'hurt' and party meaning 'a person involved in a case'. So, injured party means 'the person who has been harmed' in an accident or crime.