lawyer
/ˈlɔɪ.ɚ/ noun A2- 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 lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade. [one of various versions of an aphorism in law]
- A legal layman who argues points of law.
- A relative of the raspberry found in Australia and New Zealand, Rubus australis
- Various species of Calamus, including Calamus australis, Calamus muelleri, Calamus obstruens, Calamus vitiensis, Calamus warburgii, and Calamus moti.
- A woody climbing rainforest vine, Flagellaria indica.
Plural lawyers
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Old Acton has some claim on half Cunningham’s estate, and the lawyers have been at it with both hands.”
Some pragmatical seventeenth century lawyer, I suppose.
HOLMES, (it said)—I have been recommended to you by my lawyers, but indeed the matter is so extraordinarily delicate that it is most difficult to discuss.
You need not mention it to the American lawyer....
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