Meaning
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- A lawyer; one who advises or represents others in legal matters as a profession.
- One such who practised in the courts of the common law.
- A solicitor.
- An agent or representative authorized to act on someone else's behalf.
- An honorific given to lawyers and notaries public, or those holders by profession who also do other jobs. Usually capitalized or abbreviated as Atty.
- Clusia spp.
- A prosecutor
Synonyms
sollicitor
counsel for prosecution
counselor-at-law
legal adviser
legal authority
legal expert
public prosecutor
pleading by proxy
speaking for another
expert of law
law agent
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/əˈtɜː(ɹ)ni/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English attourne, from Old French atorné, past participle of atorner, atourner, aturner (“to attorn”), in the sense of "one appointed or constituted".
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