litigator

English

Etymology

From litigate +‎ -or.

Noun

litigator (plural litigators)

1. A person employed to litigate, a lawyer skilled in arguing in court.
   • 2024 April 11, Fredreka Schouten and Tierney Sneed, “GOP leaders pursue new lawsuits over 2024 election rules – including attacking methods of voting they want supporters to use”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     “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.”

   • 2025 February 4, Shania Shelton and Morgan Rimmer, “Senate votes to confirm Pam Bondi as attorney general”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     The Senate voted Tuesday night to confirm Pam Bondi as attorney general, making the tenacious litigator the latest official to help fill out President Donald Trump’s administration.

Latin

Verb

lītigātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of lītigō

References

• “litigator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “litigator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• litigator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.