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lawyer
[ law-yer, loi-er ]
noun
- a person whose profession is to represent clients in a court of law or to advise or act for clients in other legal matters.
- New Testament. an interpreter of the Mosaic Law. Luke 14:3.
verb (used without object)
- to work as a lawyer; practice law.
verb (used with object)
- to submit (a case, document, or the like) to a lawyer for examination, advice, clarification, etc.
verb phrase
- Informal. to hire a lawyer, especially when there is a perceived risk of being sued or charged with a crime:
It’s time to lawyer up to protect yourself and your family.
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Other Words From
- lawyer·like lawyer·ly adjective
- de·lawyer verb (used with object)
- non·lawyer noun
- under·lawyer noun
- un·lawyer·like adjective
- un·lawyer·ly adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of lawyer1
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Example Sentences
He first rose to prominence as a lawyer in Queens, who settled a boiling racial dispute over public housing in Forest Hills.
Sabrine is a trained lawyer, likely a helpful quality when your task is to push politicians.
As the director of Freedom Now, I hold Intigam Aliyev in high esteem and have long respected his work as a human-rights lawyer.
His court-appointed lawyer was drinking a quart of liquor per day.
“At worst, Eric picked up a garbage can, was told by police to put it down, and did,” his lawyer, Martin Stoler, insisted.
The sharpened faculties have something of a lawyer's quickness in detecting a flaw in the indictment.
Sebastian Brandt died; counsellor of Strassburg, a lawyer, and author of a curious poem.
But a lawyer who needed the wherewithal finally condescended to risk the task, and into it he plunged.
"Fortunate," the Reverend repeated, thoughtfully, and looking up found the lawyer's eyes upon him.
If a client goes to a lawyer for advice the first thing the lawyer asks him to do is to make a clean breast of it.
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