Litigator

noun

noun ·4 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person employed to litigate, a lawyer skilled in arguing in court.

    "“In the past you had to pick your battles, you had limited resources and limited attorneys, so you picked the things that you thought would have the biggest stakes,” Muller said. Now, election litigators don’t have to be so “choosy.”"

  2. 2
    (law) a party to a lawsuit; someone involved in litigation wordnet

Example

More examples

"“In the past you had to pick your battles, you had limited resources and limited attorneys, so you picked the things that you thought would have the biggest stakes,” Muller said. Now, election litigators don’t have to be so “choosy.”"

Etymology

From litigate + -or.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.