solicitor
/səˈlɪsɪtɚ/ noun C1- A lawyer offering most legal services to clients apart from representation in court, for which the lawyer typically solicits and instructs a barrister instead, although rights of audience vary by jurisdiction. · Traditional solicitors are still found in the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, and parts of Australia.
- The chief legal officer of a city, town, or similar jurisdiction in some American states.
- A customer, a requester of goods and services, especially johns, the clients of prostitutes.
- A door-to-door salesperson, a person soliciting sales by visiting others' houses. · Did you see the sign that says 'No Solicitors'?
Plural solicitors
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He was a solicitor and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new premises were ready.
I have the clearest claim upon half of their present estate, and if they could have found a single paper—which, fortunately, was in the strong-box of my solicitors—they would undoubtedly have crippled our case.”
You mentioned your name, as if I should recognize it, but I assure you that, beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a Freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.”
Jonas Oldacre had received a late visitor in his bedroom upon that night, and the stick found has been identified as the property of this person, who is a young London solicitor named John Hector McFarlane, junior partner of Graham and McFarlane, of 426, Gresham Buildings, E.
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