noun
- the party against whom an appeal is taken; the party who won in the lower court and must respond to the appeal
Usage: legal
Examples
- The appellee filed a brief defending the trial court’s decision.
- As the appellee, she had thirty days to respond to the appeal.
- The appellant argued that the appellee had been wrongly awarded damages.
- The appellee’s attorney urged the court to affirm the lower court’s ruling.
- Both the appellant and appellee presented oral arguments to the appeals court.
- The appellee successfully defended the original judgment on appeal.