petitioner

Roget-categorie 767

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

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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.

The content on this page comes straight from Project Gutenberg Etext of Roget's Thesaurus No. Two, which consists of the acclaimed work by Peter Mark Roget augmented with more recent material. Some changes were made to the formatting for improved readability.

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