request
They made a desperate plea for help.他们拼命求助。
The president has made an emotional plea for the killing to stop.总统恳切地呼吁停止屠杀。
Relatives of the dead made an impassioned plea for the bodies to be flown back to this country.死者亲属强烈恳求将尸体空运回国。
The child's mother made a passionate plea for help.那孩子的母亲急切地向人们求助。
Aid organizations are making an urgent plea for financial assistance.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Making appeals & requests
adjuration
appellate
apply for something
apply to
ask a lot
besiege
car wash
cry
demand
entreat
entreaty
imploringly
importunately
importunity
invite
invocation
leech
push
scrounge
ticket

pleanoun[C] (STATEMENT)

law specialized
the answer that a person gives in court when they have been accused of committing a crime: 申诉
Mr Wilson entered a plea of not guilty.威尔逊先生提出了无罪申诉。
The prisoner entered a plea of not guilty.犯人提出无罪抗辩。
Her plea of ignorance of the law in extenuation of her crime was not accepted.
The judge is not likely to look favourably on a plea of not guilty.
His plea of guilty to manslaughter was not accepted by the prosecution.他关于过失杀人罪的抗辩没有被原告律师接受。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Court cases, orders & decisions
actionable
actionably
administer
admissibility
admissible
extinguishment
extrajudicial
extrajudicially
fatal accident inquiry
federal case
pettifoggery
pettifogging
plea bargain
plea bargaining
pleading
the Webster ruling
waiver
walk
walk freeidiom
wardship

plea | American Dictionary

plea
noun[ C ]
us/pli/

pleanoun[C] (REQUEST)

an urgent and emotional request:
The president made a strong plea to Congress to vote on the health-care bill.

pleanoun[C] (STATEMENT)

law
the answer that a person gives in court to the accusation of having committed a crime:
He received a sentence of 5 to 10 years for his guilty plea to the robbery charge.

plea | Business English

plea
noun[ C ]
uk /pliː/us
LAW
a statement made by someone in a court of law in which they say if they are guilty of something that they are accused of:
a guilty/not guilty pleaThe guilty plea will mark the second time in eight years that the oil company has been convicted of a federal environmental crime in Alaska.
a plea of guilty/not guiltyShe entered a plea of not guilty in federal court Friday to multiple extortion and bribery charges.
enter/withdraw a pleaRecent reforms will allow them to enter a plea of diminished political responsibility.

Examples of plea

plea
The vita was a well-regarded man, learned in the arts of pleas.
The teachers' pleas for calm were greeted with cheers that would not have been out of place at a basketball game.
Even if we are caught out, our pleas of 'slip of the tongue' are nearly always honored.
He calls for help, but his pleas go unheeded (1088-94).
Alternatively, we could understand all pleas for mercy as simply ways of formally expressing our repentance and apology.
All the familiar arguments from religious pleas to right-to-choose claims were used in the discussions.
A fourth section develops this theme, emphasizing the dangers of superficial comparisons or simplistic pleas for the transfer of human resource policies and practices.
He did not, however, reveal that his pleas were based on dreaming or clairvoyance.
A significant proportion of them were young, male beggars who were feared capable of working sorcery as a rite of revenge against householders who rejected their pleas for alms.
A sampling from the passionate pleas of thoughtful scholars on this topic is aimed at stirring music educators to revisit the nature and value of history for our profession internationally.
By the end of the century, the dichotomy between theoretical ideals and practical reality came to a halt as both methodological treatises on education and pleas for funding ceased.
Two pleas of guilty were dealt with and one trial took place.
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