lay person

noun

1. a person who is not a member of the clergy

2. a person who does not have specialized or professional knowledge of a subject

   a lay person's guide to conveyancing

Example Sentences

The meaning is not something that a lay person can necessarily intuit.

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“Even a lay person has the common sense to see exigent circumstances exist to enter these homes,” he said.

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"These forms are really difficult to navigate as a lawyer, so for a lay person I can see how it would be quite terrifying," she added.

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He ruled that the cited remarks “cannot raise a substantial doubt about my impartiality in the mind of a fully informed, disinterested lay person.”

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During the license suspension hearing last month, board member Sullivan Smith said it was “obvious to even a lay person” that Nichols “was in terrible distress and needed help.”

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