Suitor

Definitions

1. One who pursues someone, especially a woman, for a romantic relationship or marriage; a wooer; one who falls in love with or courts someone.
2. A person or organization that expresses an interest in working with, or taking over, another.
   broadly
3. A party to a suit or litigation.
4. One who sues, petitions, solicits, or entreats; a petitioner.

Equivalents

Examples

“(Notice⟳ that "Lysias" begins from the realistic assumption that an attractive young man with many suitors will "gratify" one of them, the only question⟳ being which. Rightly or wrongly, he treats the question⟳, "Shall I at all?" as already resolved.)”

“[…] and Mortimer asserted he had no shortage of suitors ready, willing, and able to make⟳ acquisition loans […]”

“The Betaville blog wrote earlier this week about market speculation that Adevinta was attracting takeover interest⟳, without naming the suitors.”

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