prevailing party

1. 1.

   the party in a lawsuit who obtains a judgment in their own favor

   Broaderlitigant

   law

Questions about prevailing party

What does prevailing party mean?

prevailing party means "the party in a lawsuit who obtains a judgment in their own favor".

Is prevailing party a common word?

prevailing party is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.