English > lawyer: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice. |
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| Synonym | attorney |
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| Category | law, jurisprudence | The collection of rules imposed by authority |
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| Instances | Averroes, ibn-Roshd, Abul-Walid Mohammed ibn-Ahmad Ibn-Mohammed ibn-Roshd | Arabian philosopher born in Spain |
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| Bryan, William Jennings Bryan, Great Commoner, Boy Orator of the Platte | United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925) |
| Darrow, Clarence Darrow, Clarence Seward Darrow | United States lawyer famous for his defense of lost causes (1857-1938) |
| Hays, Arthur Garfield Hays | United States lawyer involved in several famous court trials (1881-1954) |
| Hays, Will Hays, William Harrison Hays | United States lawyer and politician who formulated a production code that prescribed the moral content of United States films from 1930 to 1966 (1879-1954) |
| Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, John Edgar Hoover | United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972) |
| Key, Francis Scott Key | United States lawyer and poet who wrote a poem after witnessing the British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812 |
| Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln, President Lincoln, President Abraham Lincoln | 16th President of the United States |
| Member of | lawyer-client relation, attorney-client relation | The responsibility of a lawyer to act in the best interests of the client |
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| Narrower | advocate, counsel, counselor, counsellor, counselor-at-law, pleader | A lawyer who pleads / pleads cases in court |
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| ambulance chaser | An unethical lawyer who incites / incites accident victims to sue |
| barrister | A British or Canadian lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law on behalf of either the defense or prosecution |
| conveyancer | A lawyer who specializes in the business of conveying properties |
| defense attorney, defense lawyer | The lawyer representing the defendant |
| divorce lawyer | A lawyer specializing in actions for divorce or annulment |
| prosecutor, public prosecutor, prosecuting officer, prosecuting attorney | A government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state |
| public defender | A lawyer who represents indigent defendants at public expense |
| referee | An attorney appointed by a court to investigate and report on a case |
| solicitor | A British lawyer who gives legal advice and prepares legal documents |
| trial attorney, trial lawyer | A lawyer who specializes in defending clients before a court of law |
| Broader | professional, professional person | A person engaged in one of the learned professions |
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| Spanish | abogada, abogado, defensor, jurista, letrada, letrado, notario, picapleitos |
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| Catalan | advocada, advocat, defensor, jurista, lletrat, picaplets |
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| Nouns | law | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system |
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