attorney
/əˈtɜɹni/ noun B2- A lawyer; one who advises or represents others in legal matters as a profession.
- An agent or representative authorized to act on someone else's behalf in accordance with that person's instructions. · Near-synonyms: agent, proxy, representative
- An honorific given to lawyers and notaries public, or those holders by profession who also do other jobs. Usually capitalized or abbreviated as Atty.
- An attorney tree (Clusia spp.)
- A prosecutor.
Plural attorneys
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“I think I have heard you say that their uncle is an attorney in Meryton?”
“There were some very strong objections against the lady,” were Colonel Fitzwilliam’s words; and these strong objections probably were, her having one uncle who was a country attorney, and another who was in business in London.
I am aware he is a furious royalist; but, in spite of that, and of his being king’s attorney, he is a man like ourselves, and I fancy not a bad sort of one.”
If you wish to see me the king’s attorney, you must desire for me some of those violent and dangerous diseases from the cure of which so much honor redounds to the physician.”
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