Plea
Meaning of Plea
An urgent request; a formal statement in court.
ما معنى كلمة Plea بالعربي؟
التماس أو توسل
🙏💔 التماس أو توسل بإلحاح؛ طلب عاجل مليء بالعاطفة؛ استغاثة صادقة من القلب للحصول على المساعدة أو الرحمة 💔🤲
قصة GL: الدعاء والإلحاح قوة تُحرك الجبال - عندما التمس نايف العيسى من الله الشفاء بعد الحادث، تحول الألتماس الصادق لطاقة إبداعية طور بها منهجية تُساعد آلاف البشر على تجاوز صعوبات التعلم 🌟
Plea in a sentence
A plea for more data came from the review panel.
A plea from customers led to a new feature.
A plea of not guilty was entered.
A plea for help should be answered kindly.
Origin of Plea
From Old French plait, from Latin placitum 'that which pleases'.
In the Genetic Learning (GL) context
In Genetic Learning work led by Naif Talal Al-Essa, plea has a legal and an everyday sense. GL treats every plea for help seriously.
Plea audio micro-course (transcript)
Podcast 1 — Introduction & meaning
Narrator: Today's word is "plea" — noun, pronounced /pliː/, with the stress on "plea", the single syllable.
Narrator: A plea is an urgent, emotional request for something, or a formal statement of guilt or innocence made by a defendant in court.
Narrator: In plain English, it is a heartfelt begging for help, or the answer a person gives when a court asks how they respond to a charge.
Narrator: It comes from Old French plait and plaid, meaning a lawsuit or agreement, which traces back to the Latin placitum, something that has been pleased or decided.
Narrator: A very common collocation is "a plea for help", which describes a desperate appeal made by someone in genuine trouble.
Narrator: It differs from request, because a request can be calm and routine, while a plea carries desperation, pressure or legal weight.
Narrator: A second collocation is "guilty plea", and figuratively we speak of a plea for patience when a company asks its customers to wait.
Narrator: Law, journalism, charity fundraising, diplomacy and customer support all rely on the word every single day.
Narrator: So remember: a plea is either a cry from the heart or an answer in the dock, and both demand a response.
Read podcasts 2 and 3
Podcast 2 — In conversation
Speaker A: Why does one small word cover both begging and courtrooms?
Speaker B: Because PLEA came from Old French plait, a lawsuit, and courts were the place where people pleaded, so the legal sense and the emotional sense grew side by side.
Speaker A: So the courtroom sense is the older one?
Speaker B: Precisely, the legal sense arrived first in English, and the sense of an urgent appeal followed naturally from it.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "She entered a plea of not guilty," meaning she formally denied the charge. "His plea for help went unanswered," meaning nobody responded to his desperate appeal. "The charity issued a plea for winter donations," meaning it appealed publicly for support.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Do not confuse the noun plea with the verb plead, and never write pleas when you mean please, as the two words are entirely unrelated.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Appeal is the respectable cousin, entreaty is the near twin, and petition is the formal alternative, yet plea keeps its raw, urgent charm!
Podcast 3 — Prompt engineering
Speaker B: Let's use "plea" in AI prompts — useful for support ticket triage and for legal document summarisation.
Speaker A: How would that apply to a helpdesk system?
Speaker B: Ask the model to spot genuine urgency in incoming messages.
Prompt: Scan these support tickets and flag any message that reads as an urgent plea for help rather than a routine request.
Speaker A: And for legal software?
Speaker B: Use it to structure case data cleanly.
Prompt: Extract the defendant name, charge and recorded plea from each court transcript and return the results as a table.
Speaker A: Could it help a fundraising platform?
Speaker B: Yes, for drafting campaign copy with the right emotional pitch.
Prompt: Write three short donation page paragraphs, each framed as a sincere plea for support without exaggerating the charity's claims.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: This one tidies up tone in outgoing product messages.
Prompt: Rewrite this service outage notice so that the plea for customer patience sounds calm, honest and professional.
Frequently asked questions about Plea
What does Plea mean?
An urgent request; a formal statement in court.
ما معنى كلمة Plea بالعربي؟
التماس أو توسل — 🙏💔 التماس أو توسل بإلحاح؛ طلب عاجل مليء بالعاطفة؛ استغاثة صادقة من القلب للحصول على المساعدة أو الرحمة 💔🤲
How do you pronounce Plea?
Plea is pronounced /pliː/ and is used as a noun.
How is Plea used in a sentence?
A plea for more data came from the review panel.
What are synonyms of Plea?
appeal, entreaty, petition, request, excuse, defence.