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Plural of petitioner

regular plural

The plural of petitioner is petitioners.

Forms of petitioner

Singularpetitioner /pəˈtɪʃənɚ/
Pluralpetitioners
Countablecountable

Petitioners in a sentence

  • The terms petitioners and abhorrers in this context were later superseded by Whig and Tory.1999, Guy A. J. Tops et al., Thinking English Grammar: to honour Xavier Dekeyser, page 59. From the entry abhorrer
  • When a federal statute applies on its face to both private and state actors, a commandeering argument is a heavy lift—and petitioners have not pulled it off.2023, Haaland v. Brackeen (U.S. Supreme Court No. 21-376), Justice Barrett (majority opinion). From the entry heavy lift
  • It is no disparagement of the offices held by petitioners to hold that Presidential aides, like Members of the Cabinet, generally are entitled only to a qualified immunity.1982 Harlow v. Fitzgerald 457 U.S. 800. From the entry qualified immunity

Meaning of petitioner

  1. noun Someone who presents a petition to a court.
  2. noun Someone who presents a petition to some person in authority.

Full definition of petitioner

Questions about the plural of petitioner

What is the plural of petitioner?
The plural of petitioner is petitioners.
Is petitioner countable?
Petitioner is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: petitioner (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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