lawyer
Meaning
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- A professional person with a graduate law degree that qualifies for legal work (such as Juris Doctor)
- A professional person qualified (as by a law degree or bar exam) and authorized to practice law as an attorney-at-law, solicitor, advocate, barrister or equivalent, i.e. represent parties in lawsuits or trials and give legal advice.
- A legal layman who argues points of law.
- (colloquial) The burbot.
- The stem of a bramble.
- Any of various plants that have hooked thorns.
- Any of various plants that have hooked thorns.
- Any of various plants that have hooked thorns.
Synonyms
sollicitor
legal expert
freshwater cod
legal profession
mud blower
mother eel
defense counsel
legal advisor
American burbot
alaya
beaverfish
black pargue
ellpout
freshwater dogfish
gray silk
graysnapper
expert of law
counseler
freshwater eel
gray snapper
grey snapper
law agent
mangrove snapper
puddingwife
cottonfish
Master of Law
grinnel
john a. grindle
mangrove pargue
marshfish
pudding wife
ling-cod
counselor-at-law
law student
legal adviser
legal authority
Frequency
Hyphenated as
law‧yer
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈlɔːjə(ɹ)/
Etymology
From Middle English lawier, lawyer, lawer, equivalent to law + -yer.
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