lawyers

Noun

lawyer (plural lawyers)

1. A professional person with a graduate law degree that qualifies for legal work (such as Juris Doctor)
2. A professional person qualified (as by a law degree or bar exam) and authorized to practice law as an attorney-at-law, solicitor, advocate, barrister or equivalent, i.e. represent parties in lawsuits or trials and give legal advice.
   • His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;[…].1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   advocate, attorney, counselor

3. (broadly) A legal layman who argues points of law.
4. (UK, colloquial) The burbot.
5. (UK, dialectal) The stem of a bramble.
6. A relative of the raspberry found in Australia and New Zealand, Rubus australis
   • The species of Eugnomus are very partial to the lawyer (Rubus australis ) when in bloom.1881 April, George M. Thomson, “On the Fertilization of New Zealand Flowering Plants”, in Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, volume 13, page 250

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