attorney

Significado (Inglês)

Noun

1. A lawyer; one who advises or represents others in legal matters as a profession.
2. One such who practised in the courts of the common law.
3. A solicitor.
4. An agent or representative authorized to act on someone else's behalf.
5. An honorific given to lawyers and notaries public, or those holders by profession who also do other jobs. Usually capitalized or abbreviated as Atty.
6. Clusia spp.
7. A prosecutor

Verb

1. To work as a legal attorney.
2. To provide with a legal attorney.

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/əˈtɜː(ɹ)ni/

Etimologia (Inglês)

From Middle English attourne, from Old French atorné, past participle of atorner, atourner, aturner (“to attorn”), in the sense of "one appointed or constituted".

Frases

The government head of its legal wing is the Attorney General of India .

O chefe do governo de sua ala legal é o procurador -geral da Índia.

He served as the attorney for the City and Township of Berwyn .

Ele serviu como advogado da cidade e município de Berwyn.