Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Petitioner

Nouns
  • 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) Poverty
  • hippie, flower child
  • hard core unemployed
  • welfare client, welfare case. canvasser, bagman etc. Consignee
  • salesman.