Usually means: Individuals accused in a legal case.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word defendants:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. defendants: Merriam-Webster
  2. defendants: Collins English Dictionary
  3. defendants: Vocabulary.com
  4. Defendant's, Defendants, defendant's, defendants, defendants: Wordnik
  5. defendants: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. defendants: Wiktionary
  7. defendants: Dictionary.com
  8. defendants: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Defendants: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. defendants: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Defendants: Legal dictionary
  3. Defendants: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Defendants: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Defendants: Medical dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Defendants: Sports Definitions

(Note: See defendant as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (defendant)

adjective:  Serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive, defending.
noun:  (law) In civil proceedings, the party responding to the complaint; one who is sued and called upon to make satisfaction for a wrong complained of by another.
noun:  (law) In criminal proceedings, the accused.
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