Definition of plead in English:

plead

verbpleaded, pled pliːdplid

1reporting verb Make an emotional appeal.
no object she pleaded with them not to gag the boy
with direct speech ‘Don't go,’ she pleaded
with infinitive Anne pleaded to go with her
Example sentencesExamples
- Councillors and staff pleaded with Milburn to consider the tunnel option, even suggesting donating district-owned land in order to keep the cost down.
- Some pleaded with the gunman to stop.
- McGraw pleaded with the crowd not to pay their way into yesterday's match, declaring: ‘The only way to make him suffer is by not paying in.’
- He pleaded with the minister to give the project the go ahead, emphasising that the rail upgrade would cost around €130 million
- Kimmel pleaded with the network to get this done.
- We made presentations at their meetings, told them what we had been hearing from bus riders and night workers, and pleaded with board members to bring a resolution to restore the buses.
- Bradford's political leaders yesterday pleaded with the Government not to force it to hold a referendum on having a directly-elected New York-style mayor.
- I tried to leave then, to walk away (something I'd never done before), but Teresa grabbed my arm and pleaded with me not to go.
- It exploded as he pleaded with police to diffuse it.
- ‘The police will create problems for you and us also sir,’ was how a restaurant manager at Dilsukhnagar pleaded with a group of doctors.
- In 1951, when Rajaji expressed his inability to attend a Congress session at Indore, Nehru, hungry for his company, pleaded with him to come.
- I needed wider experience than my own, so I convened a couple of dinner parties of various successful singles that I know, plied them with much wine and pleaded with them to tell me their secrets.
- They just dragged Eamon from the bed, threw him all the way down the stairs, lay him on his back and beat him with sticks embedded with huge nails while my parents pleaded with them to leave him alone because of his age.
- Two weeks ago, Japan's foreign minister pleaded with the U.N. to do more to block Pyongyang's illicit-drug exports to Japan.
- At this point, she went to hide in a cupboard and repeatedly pleaded with the operator: ‘Oh my God, please help me.’
- He told me that he was getting divorced from his wife and pleaded with me to go away with him.
- He pleaded with Charlie Nicholas to sign for Liverpool rather than Arsenal.
- Labor MPs pleaded with the government to pull back.
- I pleaded with him, with others around him, too.
- The next morning, I pleaded with my husband not to return to the doctor - who I knew would remove the expanded laminaria and insert twice as many.
Synonyms
beg, entreat, beseech, implore, appeal to, petition, supplicate, importune, pray to, request, ask earnestly, call on, adjure
apply to, solicit
rare obsecrate
2with object Present and argue for (a position), especially in court or in another public context.
the idea that in public relations work someone is paid to plead a special case is disliked
Example sentencesExamples
- I actually followed Simon out of the room, pleading my case as he went to get coffee.
- There is another answer at much lower level, namely, that none of that was pleaded, argued or decided below and it is not open now.
- So there was no voice strong enough to plead their case.
- In the courtroom, the German judge read the charges and asked me in which court I wished to plead my case: German or American.
- While the case has employment law undertones, it was pleaded and presented as an oppression remedy case.
- We see Tom Stall running a popular eatery with his wife helping him out when she is not pleading cases in law courts.
- Now he stands accused of inadequately pleading his position, of mocking the people, and is instructed to try again to seek their approval.
- Our courts are clogged with lawsuits pleading redress of wrongs perpetrated on individual employees.
- Saudi officials have been pleading their country's case to the media.
- But that is not how the case was pleaded or argued.
- That case has never been pleaded or argued against us at all.
- He suggested that in any event the point had never been pleaded or argued on this basis previously.
- He argues that the Defendant pleaded her case purely on the basis of adverse possession, and did not challenge the legal title asserted by the Plaintiff.
- My mother particularly thought I'd make a very good barrister, and you know, do I think I could plead a case in court?
- The unhappy partner had to petition the legislature or court to plead his or her case.
- A week ago the group sent a letter to the province pleading the case for arts groups.
- I called my roommate Angie who was also on her way, and after we both arrived at the place we started pleading our case.
- Afterwards, she lived mainly at Hellesdon or Caister, where she managed her husband's property while he pled his case in London before the courts and the Archbishop of Canterbury.
- I have set out the material part of the pleadings because it is of some importance in this case to see how the case was pleaded and presented in the court below.
- In return, the unions agreed to plead the claim in the arbitration tribunal, tying their members to whatever decision is handed down.
Synonyms
claim, use as an excuse, assert, allege
1. 2.1Law no object Address a court as an advocate on behalf of a party.
  the Constitution prohibits a retired Supreme Court judge from pleading before any court
  Example sentencesExamples
  A court should only grant a motion for particulars where they are necessary for the moving party to plead and the particulars are not within the knowledge of the moving party.
  In some judicial courts in the early eighteenth century, attorneys had to kneel while university-educated advocates pleaded at the bar.
  Advocacy commonly is defined as pleading on behalf of another.
  The Plaintiff did not plead from an employment law perspective, that the employment contract had been breached, or that the Plaintiff had been fired without cause.
2. 2.2Law no object, with complement State formally in court whether one is guilty or not guilty of the offence with which one is charged.
  the youth pleaded guilty to murdering the girl
  Example sentencesExamples
  In court he pleaded guilty to two offences of actual bodily harm, but denied specific details of the attack.
  I thought you had conceded earlier that as originally framed, it would not have been appropriate to expect the accused to plead guilty to that charge.
  In the adversarial system at the beginning of trial proceedings the court asks the defendant whether he pleads guilty or not guilty.
  The defendant had pleaded guilty to drugs offences in January 2001.
  I went into court and I pleaded guilty to the charge of common assault.
3. 2.3Law Invoke (a reason or a point of law) as an accusation or defence.
  on trial for attempted murder, she pleaded self-defence
  Example sentencesExamples
  I notice that the Commonwealth, by its defence, does not plead any statute of limitations.
  Phil gets to live on beyond this, and with his history of rather public instability, he is pretty well set up to plead insanity.
  As counsel for the Bank has pointed out, the Statement of Defence does not plead unconscionability.
  The death penalty is not that often given to these types of people because at the trial, the defendant will plead insanity and claim that they were not in control of their actions at the time that they committed the crime.
  If she wants to plead good reason on this occasion, she also needs to apologise.
4. 2.4 Offer or present as an excuse for doing or not doing something.
  he pleaded family commitments as a reason for not attending
  Example sentencesExamples
  These new parking meters will have to be purchased, installed and maintained - causing an even heavier drain on the purse of city officials already pleading poverty.
  To think that you want someone out there pleading your special needs is extraordinary.
  The claim pleads the provisions of the judgment in the 1995 action.
  So if the excisable good in question were alleged to be brandy, how would the pleader plead the nature of those goods?
  The defendant had denied the claims and pleaded the road accident had caused all the injuries to the plaintiff.
  There is nothing more distasteful than backpackers landing in developing countries and pleading poverty.
  They continually plead poverty, yet when it comes to dishing out bonuses, they are good to their own.
  The issue of negligence is complex and you know, has been pleaded significantly within the documents that have been filed in court.
  Britain, pleading her constitutional position, did not sign, though the prince regent expressed personal approval.
  How can one plead ignorance in the presence of this massive and continuous universal call?
  But Mr Brown and his peers cannot find comfortable haven in pleading helplessness in the face of a fractured infrastructure.
  But the various cities and counties have continued to plead poverty in the hope of receiving aid from central government.
  By pleading economic necessity, the company tacitly rules out of court all arguments based on morality or claims that they are supporting deviance.
  In our universities, students justifiably plead poverty and the recommendations of the Cubie inquiry have been completely ignored.
  When he saw Monica's car, he'd flag it down, plead engine trouble and ask if Corbett could drive him.
  The couple went to court in October to plead poverty and beg for financial mercy.
  It is interesting to note, lest anyone should plead passage of time, that the court stipulated that sentences were to run from February 4, 1999.
  First, Anna and Pietro pleaded indigency, so a public defender had to be found for them.
  The city now seeks to amend the claim to plead fraudulent misrepresentation and deceit and to seek punitive damages.
  He's now in federal court pleading a religious defense, because federal law does not allow him a medical defense.
  Synonyms
  claim, use as an excuse, assert, allege

Usage

In a law court a person can plead guilty or plead not guilty. The phrase plead innocent is not a technical legal term, although it is commonly found in general use

Derivatives

pleader

noun ˈpliːdəˈplidər

That may or may not say something about English pleaders, English advocates, and English jurors.
Example sentencesExamples
- Meanwhile, a Washington Post editorial was fuming that Congress ‘caved in to the special pleaders.’
- As the name indicates, the Labor Committee is a special pleader.
- Unions are special pleaders; no one mistakes them for impartial observers or disinterested honest brokers.
- It is an attractive piece of special pleading - if you are the special pleader.

pleadingly

adverb ˈpliːdɪŋliˈplidɪŋli

He looked up, hopefully, pleadingly, for a spot kick, and instead saw a corner awarded.
Example sentencesExamples
- Knowing not where to hide from shame, Momma looked pleadingly first at the woman and then at the two young men who had by now recognised him.
- Thomas looked at him pleadingly, but Brandon showed no mercy.

Origin

Middle English (in the sense 'to wrangle'): from Old French plaidier 'go to law', from plaid 'discussion' (see plea).

Rhymes

accede, bead, Bede, bleed, breed, cede, concede, creed, deed, Eid, exceed, feed, Gide, God speed, greed, he'd, heed, impede, interbreed, intercede, Jamshid, knead, lead, mead, Mede, meed, misdeed, mislead, misread, need, proceed, read, rede, reed, Reid, retrocede, screed, secede, seed, she'd, speed, stampede, steed, succeed, supersede, Swede, tweed, weak-kneed, we'd, weed

Definition of plead in US English:

plead

verbplidplēd

1reporting verb Make an emotional appeal.
with direct speech “Don't go,” she pleaded
with infinitive Anne pleaded to go with her
no object they pleaded with Carol to come home again
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘The police will create problems for you and us also sir,’ was how a restaurant manager at Dilsukhnagar pleaded with a group of doctors.
- McGraw pleaded with the crowd not to pay their way into yesterday's match, declaring: ‘The only way to make him suffer is by not paying in.’
- I tried to leave then, to walk away (something I'd never done before), but Teresa grabbed my arm and pleaded with me not to go.
- I needed wider experience than my own, so I convened a couple of dinner parties of various successful singles that I know, plied them with much wine and pleaded with them to tell me their secrets.
- Kimmel pleaded with the network to get this done.
- He pleaded with the minister to give the project the go ahead, emphasising that the rail upgrade would cost around €130 million
- The next morning, I pleaded with my husband not to return to the doctor - who I knew would remove the expanded laminaria and insert twice as many.
- I pleaded with him, with others around him, too.
- He told me that he was getting divorced from his wife and pleaded with me to go away with him.
- In 1951, when Rajaji expressed his inability to attend a Congress session at Indore, Nehru, hungry for his company, pleaded with him to come.
- Bradford's political leaders yesterday pleaded with the Government not to force it to hold a referendum on having a directly-elected New York-style mayor.
- Councillors and staff pleaded with Milburn to consider the tunnel option, even suggesting donating district-owned land in order to keep the cost down.
- We made presentations at their meetings, told them what we had been hearing from bus riders and night workers, and pleaded with board members to bring a resolution to restore the buses.
- At this point, she went to hide in a cupboard and repeatedly pleaded with the operator: ‘Oh my God, please help me.’
- He pleaded with Charlie Nicholas to sign for Liverpool rather than Arsenal.
- Some pleaded with the gunman to stop.
- Two weeks ago, Japan's foreign minister pleaded with the U.N. to do more to block Pyongyang's illicit-drug exports to Japan.
- Labor MPs pleaded with the government to pull back.
- It exploded as he pleaded with police to diffuse it.
- They just dragged Eamon from the bed, threw him all the way down the stairs, lay him on his back and beat him with sticks embedded with huge nails while my parents pleaded with them to leave him alone because of his age.
Synonyms
beg, entreat, beseech, implore, appeal to, petition, supplicate, importune, pray to, request, ask earnestly, call on, adjure
2with object Present and argue for (a position), especially in court or in another public context.
using cheap melodrama to plead the case for three prisoners
Example sentencesExamples
- That case has never been pleaded or argued against us at all.
- I called my roommate Angie who was also on her way, and after we both arrived at the place we started pleading our case.
- Now he stands accused of inadequately pleading his position, of mocking the people, and is instructed to try again to seek their approval.
- We see Tom Stall running a popular eatery with his wife helping him out when she is not pleading cases in law courts.
- In return, the unions agreed to plead the claim in the arbitration tribunal, tying their members to whatever decision is handed down.
- So there was no voice strong enough to plead their case.
- Our courts are clogged with lawsuits pleading redress of wrongs perpetrated on individual employees.
- I have set out the material part of the pleadings because it is of some importance in this case to see how the case was pleaded and presented in the court below.
- There is another answer at much lower level, namely, that none of that was pleaded, argued or decided below and it is not open now.
- My mother particularly thought I'd make a very good barrister, and you know, do I think I could plead a case in court?
- In the courtroom, the German judge read the charges and asked me in which court I wished to plead my case: German or American.
- But that is not how the case was pleaded or argued.
- A week ago the group sent a letter to the province pleading the case for arts groups.
- He suggested that in any event the point had never been pleaded or argued on this basis previously.
- I actually followed Simon out of the room, pleading my case as he went to get coffee.
- He argues that the Defendant pleaded her case purely on the basis of adverse possession, and did not challenge the legal title asserted by the Plaintiff.
- The unhappy partner had to petition the legislature or court to plead his or her case.
- While the case has employment law undertones, it was pleaded and presented as an oppression remedy case.
- Afterwards, she lived mainly at Hellesdon or Caister, where she managed her husband's property while he pled his case in London before the courts and the Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Saudi officials have been pleading their country's case to the media.
Synonyms
claim, use as an excuse, assert, allege
1. 2.1Law no object Address a court as an advocate on behalf of a party.
  Example sentencesExamples
  In some judicial courts in the early eighteenth century, attorneys had to kneel while university-educated advocates pleaded at the bar.
  The Plaintiff did not plead from an employment law perspective, that the employment contract had been breached, or that the Plaintiff had been fired without cause.
  A court should only grant a motion for particulars where they are necessary for the moving party to plead and the particulars are not within the knowledge of the moving party.
  Advocacy commonly is defined as pleading on behalf of another.
2. 2.2Law no object, with complement State formally in court whether one is guilty or not guilty of the offense with which one is charged.
  he pleaded guilty to the drug charge
  Example sentencesExamples
  I went into court and I pleaded guilty to the charge of common assault.
  In the adversarial system at the beginning of trial proceedings the court asks the defendant whether he pleads guilty or not guilty.
  In court he pleaded guilty to two offences of actual bodily harm, but denied specific details of the attack.
  I thought you had conceded earlier that as originally framed, it would not have been appropriate to expect the accused to plead guilty to that charge.
  The defendant had pleaded guilty to drugs offences in January 2001.
3. 2.3Law Invoke (a reason or a point of law) as an accusation or defense.
  on trial for attempted murder, she pleaded self-defense
  Example sentencesExamples
  Phil gets to live on beyond this, and with his history of rather public instability, he is pretty well set up to plead insanity.
  If she wants to plead good reason on this occasion, she also needs to apologise.
  I notice that the Commonwealth, by its defence, does not plead any statute of limitations.
  The death penalty is not that often given to these types of people because at the trial, the defendant will plead insanity and claim that they were not in control of their actions at the time that they committed the crime.
  As counsel for the Bank has pointed out, the Statement of Defence does not plead unconscionability.
4. 2.4 Offer or present as an excuse for doing or not doing something.
  he pleaded family commitments as a reason for not attending
  Example sentencesExamples
  He's now in federal court pleading a religious defense, because federal law does not allow him a medical defense.
  There is nothing more distasteful than backpackers landing in developing countries and pleading poverty.
  When he saw Monica's car, he'd flag it down, plead engine trouble and ask if Corbett could drive him.
  The couple went to court in October to plead poverty and beg for financial mercy.
  The issue of negligence is complex and you know, has been pleaded significantly within the documents that have been filed in court.
  First, Anna and Pietro pleaded indigency, so a public defender had to be found for them.
  The claim pleads the provisions of the judgment in the 1995 action.
  It is interesting to note, lest anyone should plead passage of time, that the court stipulated that sentences were to run from February 4, 1999.
  The defendant had denied the claims and pleaded the road accident had caused all the injuries to the plaintiff.
  They continually plead poverty, yet when it comes to dishing out bonuses, they are good to their own.
  These new parking meters will have to be purchased, installed and maintained - causing an even heavier drain on the purse of city officials already pleading poverty.
  In our universities, students justifiably plead poverty and the recommendations of the Cubie inquiry have been completely ignored.
  To think that you want someone out there pleading your special needs is extraordinary.
  How can one plead ignorance in the presence of this massive and continuous universal call?
  The city now seeks to amend the claim to plead fraudulent misrepresentation and deceit and to seek punitive damages.
  But the various cities and counties have continued to plead poverty in the hope of receiving aid from central government.
  But Mr Brown and his peers cannot find comfortable haven in pleading helplessness in the face of a fractured infrastructure.
  Britain, pleading her constitutional position, did not sign, though the prince regent expressed personal approval.
  By pleading economic necessity, the company tacitly rules out of court all arguments based on morality or claims that they are supporting deviance.
  So if the excisable good in question were alleged to be brandy, how would the pleader plead the nature of those goods?
  Synonyms
  claim, use as an excuse, assert, allege

Usage

In a court of law, a person can plead guilty or plead not guilty. The phrase plead innocent, although commonly found in general use, is not a technical legal term. Note that one pleads guilty to (not of) an offense, and may be found guilty of an offense. See also innocent

Origin

Middle English (in the sense ‘to wrangle’): from Old French plaidier ‘go to law’, from plaid ‘discussion’ (see plea).

单词	plead
释义	Definition of plead in English: plead verbpleaded, pled pliːdplid 1reporting verb Make an emotional appeal. no object she pleaded with them not to gag the boy with direct speech ‘Don't go,’ she pleaded with infinitive Anne pleaded to go with her Example sentencesExamples Councillors and staff pleaded with Milburn to consider the tunnel option, even suggesting donating district-owned land in order to keep the cost down. Some pleaded with the gunman to stop. McGraw pleaded with the crowd not to pay their way into yesterday's match, declaring: ‘The only way to make him suffer is by not paying in.’ He pleaded with the minister to give the project the go ahead, emphasising that the rail upgrade would cost around €130 million Kimmel pleaded with the network to get this done. We made presentations at their meetings, told them what we had been hearing from bus riders and night workers, and pleaded with board members to bring a resolution to restore the buses. Bradford's political leaders yesterday pleaded with the Government not to force it to hold a referendum on having a directly-elected New York-style mayor. I tried to leave then, to walk away (something I'd never done before), but Teresa grabbed my arm and pleaded with me not to go. It exploded as he pleaded with police to diffuse it. ‘The police will create problems for you and us also sir,’ was how a restaurant manager at Dilsukhnagar pleaded with a group of doctors. In 1951, when Rajaji expressed his inability to attend a Congress session at Indore, Nehru, hungry for his company, pleaded with him to come. I needed wider experience than my own, so I convened a couple of dinner parties of various successful singles that I know, plied them with much wine and pleaded with them to tell me their secrets. They just dragged Eamon from the bed, threw him all the way down the stairs, lay him on his back and beat him with sticks embedded with huge nails while my parents pleaded with them to leave him alone because of his age. Two weeks ago, Japan's foreign minister pleaded with the U.N. to do more to block Pyongyang's illicit-drug exports to Japan. At this point, she went to hide in a cupboard and repeatedly pleaded with the operator: ‘Oh my God, please help me.’ He told me that he was getting divorced from his wife and pleaded with me to go away with him. He pleaded with Charlie Nicholas to sign for Liverpool rather than Arsenal. Labor MPs pleaded with the government to pull back. I pleaded with him, with others around him, too. The next morning, I pleaded with my husband not to return to the doctor - who I knew would remove the expanded laminaria and insert twice as many. Synonyms beg, entreat, beseech, implore, appeal to, petition, supplicate, importune, pray to, request, ask earnestly, call on, adjure apply to, solicit rare obsecrate 2with object Present and argue for (a position), especially in court or in another public context. the idea that in public relations work someone is paid to plead a special case is disliked Example sentencesExamples I actually followed Simon out of the room, pleading my case as he went to get coffee. There is another answer at much lower level, namely, that none of that was pleaded, argued or decided below and it is not open now. So there was no voice strong enough to plead their case. In the courtroom, the German judge read the charges and asked me in which court I wished to plead my case: German or American. While the case has employment law undertones, it was pleaded and presented as an oppression remedy case. We see Tom Stall running a popular eatery with his wife helping him out when she is not pleading cases in law courts. Now he stands accused of inadequately pleading his position, of mocking the people, and is instructed to try again to seek their approval. Our courts are clogged with lawsuits pleading redress of wrongs perpetrated on individual employees. Saudi officials have been pleading their country's case to the media. But that is not how the case was pleaded or argued. That case has never been pleaded or argued against us at all. He suggested that in any event the point had never been pleaded or argued on this basis previously. He argues that the Defendant pleaded her case purely on the basis of adverse possession, and did not challenge the legal title asserted by the Plaintiff. My mother particularly thought I'd make a very good barrister, and you know, do I think I could plead a case in court? The unhappy partner had to petition the legislature or court to plead his or her case. A week ago the group sent a letter to the province pleading the case for arts groups. I called my roommate Angie who was also on her way, and after we both arrived at the place we started pleading our case. Afterwards, she lived mainly at Hellesdon or Caister, where she managed her husband's property while he pled his case in London before the courts and the Archbishop of Canterbury. I have set out the material part of the pleadings because it is of some importance in this case to see how the case was pleaded and presented in the court below. In return, the unions agreed to plead the claim in the arbitration tribunal, tying their members to whatever decision is handed down. Synonyms claim, use as an excuse, assert, allege 2.1Law no object Address a court as an advocate on behalf of a party. the Constitution prohibits a retired Supreme Court judge from pleading before any court Example sentencesExamples A court should only grant a motion for particulars where they are necessary for the moving party to plead and the particulars are not within the knowledge of the moving party. In some judicial courts in the early eighteenth century, attorneys had to kneel while university-educated advocates pleaded at the bar. Advocacy commonly is defined as pleading on behalf of another. The Plaintiff did not plead from an employment law perspective, that the employment contract had been breached, or that the Plaintiff had been fired without cause. 2.2Law no object, with complement State formally in court whether one is guilty or not guilty of the offence with which one is charged. the youth pleaded guilty to murdering the girl Example sentencesExamples In court he pleaded guilty to two offences of actual bodily harm, but denied specific details of the attack. I thought you had conceded earlier that as originally framed, it would not have been appropriate to expect the accused to plead guilty to that charge. In the adversarial system at the beginning of trial proceedings the court asks the defendant whether he pleads guilty or not guilty. The defendant had pleaded guilty to drugs offences in January 2001. I went into court and I pleaded guilty to the charge of common assault. 2.3Law Invoke (a reason or a point of law) as an accusation or defence. on trial for attempted murder, she pleaded self-defence Example sentencesExamples I notice that the Commonwealth, by its defence, does not plead any statute of limitations. Phil gets to live on beyond this, and with his history of rather public instability, he is pretty well set up to plead insanity. As counsel for the Bank has pointed out, the Statement of Defence does not plead unconscionability. The death penalty is not that often given to these types of people because at the trial, the defendant will plead insanity and claim that they were not in control of their actions at the time that they committed the crime. If she wants to plead good reason on this occasion, she also needs to apologise. 2.4 Offer or present as an excuse for doing or not doing something. he pleaded family commitments as a reason for not attending Example sentencesExamples These new parking meters will have to be purchased, installed and maintained - causing an even heavier drain on the purse of city officials already pleading poverty. To think that you want someone out there pleading your special needs is extraordinary. The claim pleads the provisions of the judgment in the 1995 action. So if the excisable good in question were alleged to be brandy, how would the pleader plead the nature of those goods? The defendant had denied the claims and pleaded the road accident had caused all the injuries to the plaintiff. There is nothing more distasteful than backpackers landing in developing countries and pleading poverty. They continually plead poverty, yet when it comes to dishing out bonuses, they are good to their own. The issue of negligence is complex and you know, has been pleaded significantly within the documents that have been filed in court. Britain, pleading her constitutional position, did not sign, though the prince regent expressed personal approval. How can one plead ignorance in the presence of this massive and continuous universal call? But Mr Brown and his peers cannot find comfortable haven in pleading helplessness in the face of a fractured infrastructure. But the various cities and counties have continued to plead poverty in the hope of receiving aid from central government. By pleading economic necessity, the company tacitly rules out of court all arguments based on morality or claims that they are supporting deviance. In our universities, students justifiably plead poverty and the recommendations of the Cubie inquiry have been completely ignored. When he saw Monica's car, he'd flag it down, plead engine trouble and ask if Corbett could drive him. The couple went to court in October to plead poverty and beg for financial mercy. It is interesting to note, lest anyone should plead passage of time, that the court stipulated that sentences were to run from February 4, 1999. First, Anna and Pietro pleaded indigency, so a public defender had to be found for them. The city now seeks to amend the claim to plead fraudulent misrepresentation and deceit and to seek punitive damages. He's now in federal court pleading a religious defense, because federal law does not allow him a medical defense. Synonyms claim, use as an excuse, assert, allege Usage In a law court a person can plead guilty or plead not guilty. The phrase plead innocent is not a technical legal term, although it is commonly found in general use Derivatives pleader noun ˈpliːdəˈplidər That may or may not say something about English pleaders, English advocates, and English jurors. Example sentencesExamples Meanwhile, a Washington Post editorial was fuming that Congress ‘caved in to the special pleaders.’ As the name indicates, the Labor Committee is a special pleader. Unions are special pleaders; no one mistakes them for impartial observers or disinterested honest brokers. It is an attractive piece of special pleading - if you are the special pleader. pleadingly adverb ˈpliːdɪŋliˈplidɪŋli He looked up, hopefully, pleadingly, for a spot kick, and instead saw a corner awarded. Example sentencesExamples Knowing not where to hide from shame, Momma looked pleadingly first at the woman and then at the two young men who had by now recognised him. Thomas looked at him pleadingly, but Brandon showed no mercy. Origin Middle English (in the sense 'to wrangle'): from Old French plaidier 'go to law', from plaid 'discussion' (see plea). Rhymes accede, bead, Bede, bleed, breed, cede, concede, creed, deed, Eid, exceed, feed, Gide, God speed, greed, he'd, heed, impede, interbreed, intercede, Jamshid, knead, lead, mead, Mede, meed, misdeed, mislead, misread, need, proceed, read, rede, reed, Reid, retrocede, screed, secede, seed, she'd, speed, stampede, steed, succeed, supersede, Swede, tweed, weak-kneed, we'd, weed Definition of plead in US English: plead verbplidplēd 1reporting verb Make an emotional appeal. with direct speech “Don't go,” she pleaded with infinitive Anne pleaded to go with her no object they pleaded with Carol to come home again Example sentencesExamples ‘The police will create problems for you and us also sir,’ was how a restaurant manager at Dilsukhnagar pleaded with a group of doctors. McGraw pleaded with the crowd not to pay their way into yesterday's match, declaring: ‘The only way to make him suffer is by not paying in.’ I tried to leave then, to walk away (something I'd never done before), but Teresa grabbed my arm and pleaded with me not to go. I needed wider experience than my own, so I convened a couple of dinner parties of various successful singles that I know, plied them with much wine and pleaded with them to tell me their secrets. Kimmel pleaded with the network to get this done. He pleaded with the minister to give the project the go ahead, emphasising that the rail upgrade would cost around €130 million The next morning, I pleaded with my husband not to return to the doctor - who I knew would remove the expanded laminaria and insert twice as many. I pleaded with him, with others around him, too. He told me that he was getting divorced from his wife and pleaded with me to go away with him. In 1951, when Rajaji expressed his inability to attend a Congress session at Indore, Nehru, hungry for his company, pleaded with him to come. Bradford's political leaders yesterday pleaded with the Government not to force it to hold a referendum on having a directly-elected New York-style mayor. Councillors and staff pleaded with Milburn to consider the tunnel option, even suggesting donating district-owned land in order to keep the cost down. We made presentations at their meetings, told them what we had been hearing from bus riders and night workers, and pleaded with board members to bring a resolution to restore the buses. At this point, she went to hide in a cupboard and repeatedly pleaded with the operator: ‘Oh my God, please help me.’ He pleaded with Charlie Nicholas to sign for Liverpool rather than Arsenal. Some pleaded with the gunman to stop. Two weeks ago, Japan's foreign minister pleaded with the U.N. to do more to block Pyongyang's illicit-drug exports to Japan. Labor MPs pleaded with the government to pull back. It exploded as he pleaded with police to diffuse it. They just dragged Eamon from the bed, threw him all the way down the stairs, lay him on his back and beat him with sticks embedded with huge nails while my parents pleaded with them to leave him alone because of his age. Synonyms beg, entreat, beseech, implore, appeal to, petition, supplicate, importune, pray to, request, ask earnestly, call on, adjure 2with object Present and argue for (a position), especially in court or in another public context. using cheap melodrama to plead the case for three prisoners Example sentencesExamples That case has never been pleaded or argued against us at all. I called my roommate Angie who was also on her way, and after we both arrived at the place we started pleading our case. Now he stands accused of inadequately pleading his position, of mocking the people, and is instructed to try again to seek their approval. We see Tom Stall running a popular eatery with his wife helping him out when she is not pleading cases in law courts. In return, the unions agreed to plead the claim in the arbitration tribunal, tying their members to whatever decision is handed down. So there was no voice strong enough to plead their case. Our courts are clogged with lawsuits pleading redress of wrongs perpetrated on individual employees. I have set out the material part of the pleadings because it is of some importance in this case to see how the case was pleaded and presented in the court below. There is another answer at much lower level, namely, that none of that was pleaded, argued or decided below and it is not open now. My mother particularly thought I'd make a very good barrister, and you know, do I think I could plead a case in court? In the courtroom, the German judge read the charges and asked me in which court I wished to plead my case: German or American. But that is not how the case was pleaded or argued. A week ago the group sent a letter to the province pleading the case for arts groups. He suggested that in any event the point had never been pleaded or argued on this basis previously. I actually followed Simon out of the room, pleading my case as he went to get coffee. He argues that the Defendant pleaded her case purely on the basis of adverse possession, and did not challenge the legal title asserted by the Plaintiff. The unhappy partner had to petition the legislature or court to plead his or her case. While the case has employment law undertones, it was pleaded and presented as an oppression remedy case. Afterwards, she lived mainly at Hellesdon or Caister, where she managed her husband's property while he pled his case in London before the courts and the Archbishop of Canterbury. Saudi officials have been pleading their country's case to the media. Synonyms claim, use as an excuse, assert, allege 2.1Law no object Address a court as an advocate on behalf of a party. Example sentencesExamples In some judicial courts in the early eighteenth century, attorneys had to kneel while university-educated advocates pleaded at the bar. The Plaintiff did not plead from an employment law perspective, that the employment contract had been breached, or that the Plaintiff had been fired without cause. A court should only grant a motion for particulars where they are necessary for the moving party to plead and the particulars are not within the knowledge of the moving party. Advocacy commonly is defined as pleading on behalf of another. 2.2Law no object, with complement State formally in court whether one is guilty or not guilty of the offense with which one is charged. he pleaded guilty to the drug charge Example sentencesExamples I went into court and I pleaded guilty to the charge of common assault. In the adversarial system at the beginning of trial proceedings the court asks the defendant whether he pleads guilty or not guilty. In court he pleaded guilty to two offences of actual bodily harm, but denied specific details of the attack. I thought you had conceded earlier that as originally framed, it would not have been appropriate to expect the accused to plead guilty to that charge. The defendant had pleaded guilty to drugs offences in January 2001. 2.3Law Invoke (a reason or a point of law) as an accusation or defense. on trial for attempted murder, she pleaded self-defense Example sentencesExamples Phil gets to live on beyond this, and with his history of rather public instability, he is pretty well set up to plead insanity. If she wants to plead good reason on this occasion, she also needs to apologise. I notice that the Commonwealth, by its defence, does not plead any statute of limitations. The death penalty is not that often given to these types of people because at the trial, the defendant will plead insanity and claim that they were not in control of their actions at the time that they committed the crime. As counsel for the Bank has pointed out, the Statement of Defence does not plead unconscionability. 2.4 Offer or present as an excuse for doing or not doing something. he pleaded family commitments as a reason for not attending Example sentencesExamples He's now in federal court pleading a religious defense, because federal law does not allow him a medical defense. There is nothing more distasteful than backpackers landing in developing countries and pleading poverty. When he saw Monica's car, he'd flag it down, plead engine trouble and ask if Corbett could drive him. The couple went to court in October to plead poverty and beg for financial mercy. The issue of negligence is complex and you know, has been pleaded significantly within the documents that have been filed in court. First, Anna and Pietro pleaded indigency, so a public defender had to be found for them. The claim pleads the provisions of the judgment in the 1995 action. It is interesting to note, lest anyone should plead passage of time, that the court stipulated that sentences were to run from February 4, 1999. The defendant had denied the claims and pleaded the road accident had caused all the injuries to the plaintiff. They continually plead poverty, yet when it comes to dishing out bonuses, they are good to their own. These new parking meters will have to be purchased, installed and maintained - causing an even heavier drain on the purse of city officials already pleading poverty. In our universities, students justifiably plead poverty and the recommendations of the Cubie inquiry have been completely ignored. To think that you want someone out there pleading your special needs is extraordinary. How can one plead ignorance in the presence of this massive and continuous universal call? The city now seeks to amend the claim to plead fraudulent misrepresentation and deceit and to seek punitive damages. But the various cities and counties have continued to plead poverty in the hope of receiving aid from central government. But Mr Brown and his peers cannot find comfortable haven in pleading helplessness in the face of a fractured infrastructure. Britain, pleading her constitutional position, did not sign, though the prince regent expressed personal approval. By pleading economic necessity, the company tacitly rules out of court all arguments based on morality or claims that they are supporting deviance. So if the excisable good in question were alleged to be brandy, how would the pleader plead the nature of those goods? Synonyms claim, use as an excuse, assert, allege Usage In a court of law, a person can plead guilty or plead not guilty. The phrase plead innocent, although commonly found in general use, is not a technical legal term. Note that one pleads guilty to (not of) an offense, and may be found guilty of an offense. See also innocent Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘to wrangle’): from Old French plaidier ‘go to law’, from plaid ‘discussion’ (see plea).
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