petitioner

Roget category 767

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.7. Special intersocial volition
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#767. Petitioner

noun

petitioner, solicitor, applicant — suppliant, supplicant — suitor, candidate, claimant, postulant, aspirant, competitor, bidder — place hunter, pot hunter — prizer^† — seeker.
beggar, mendicant, moocher, panhandler, freeloader, sponger, mumper^†, sturdy beggar, cadger — hotel runner, runner, steerer [U.S.], tout, touter^†.
[poor person] pauper, homeless person, hobo, bum, tramp, bindle stiff, bo, knight of the road (poverty) 804 — hippie, flower child — hard core unemployed — welfare client, welfare case.
canvasser, bagman etc. 758 — salesman.

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