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- Dictionaryplead/pliːd/
verb
- 1. make an emotional appeal: "she pleaded with them not to gag the boy" Similar
- 2. 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" Similar
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to make a statement of what you believe to be true, especially in support of something or someone or when someone has been accused in a law court: The defendant pleaded not guilty / innocent to robbery with violence. They paid a high-powered attorney to plead their case (= argue for them in court).
a. : to make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding. especially : to answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts. b. : to conduct pleadings. 3. : to make a plea of a specified nature. plead not guilty. 4. a. : to argue for or against a claim. b.
PLEAD meaning: 1. to make an urgent, emotional statement or request for something: 2. to make a statement of what…. Learn more.
Plead is used in a more specific way in a legal context, in which it means to declare one’s status in response to charges, especially to plead guilty or not guilty, as in How does the defendant plead? and My client pleads not guilty. It can also mean to argue something in court.
1. To assert as defense, vindication, or excuse; claim as a plea: plead illness as the reason for his absence. 2. Law. a. To specify (a cause of action or defense): plead a First Amendment claim. b. To set forth in a pleading: plead that plaintiff suffered damages as a result of the breach of contract.
To plead is to ask for something from someone, often on the verge of begging. You may plead with the phone company to give an appointment time that spans only three hours, but, regardless of your pleading, they will make you wait eight hours for the technician to finally show.
If you plead a particular thing as the reason for doing or not doing something, you give it as your excuse.
