codefendant

A noun referring to a person who is jointly accused or sued together with one or more other defendants in a single legal action.

• 🇨🇳名词，指在同一案件中与一名或多名其他被告一起被共同起诉或共同受审的人。

1. Co-defendant in a legal case C1 formal legal

   A person who is accused together with one or more other people in the same legal proceeding.

   • The codefendant was tried alongside the main suspect.
   • Both the codefendant and the primary defendant pleaded not guilty.
   • The lawyer argued that his client was not involved in the crime, unlike the codefendant.

   🇨🇳共同被告

   同义词: co-defendant

• codefendants plural form
• codefendants' possessive plural form
• codefendant's possessive singular form