"reasonable person" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: reasonable persons [plural], reasonable people [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|s|reasonable people}} reasonable person (plural reasonable persons or reasonable people)
  1. (law) A fictional person used as a comparative legal standard to represent an average member of society and how he or she would behave or think, especially in determining negligence; sometimes formulated as "a person of ordinary prudence exercising due care in like circumstances." Categories (topical): Law, People Translations (a fictional person used as a comparative legal standard to represent an average member of society): 理性自然人 (lǐxìng zìránrén) (Chinese Mandarin), järkevä henkilö (Finnish), personne raisonnable [feminine] (French), 通常人 (tsūjōjin) (Japanese), 一般人 (ippanjin) (Japanese), persoană rezonabilă [feminine] (Romanian), persona razonable [feminine] (Spanish), วิญญูชน (win-yuu-chon) (Thai)
    Sense id: en-reasonable_person-en-noun-geB0lskB Disambiguation of People: 100 0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 91 9 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 87 13 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 90 10 Topics: law Disambiguation of 'a fictional person used as a comparative legal standard to represent an average member of society': 88 12
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see reasonable, person.
    Sense id: en-reasonable_person-en-noun-WGvAI-wB

Inflected forms

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