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Senior Counsel

Senior Counsel noun: an honorific status officially conferred on senior or meritorious barristers (and occasionally other kinds of lawyer).

Noun

Senior Counsel (plural Senior Counsel or Senior Counsels, abbreviation SC)

  1. (Hong-Kong, Ireland, Commonwealth outside of the realm) An honorific status officially conferred on senior or meritorious barristers (and occasionally other kinds of lawyer).
    • The two Senior Counsels, who were very familiar with each other, were addressing one another as ‘Mister’, while I was addressing both by their Christian names.2013, Peter Quinn, “Becoming a Target”, in The Outsider, Lucan, Dublin: Irish Sports Publishing, →ISBN, page 187
    • He’s a deputy director of public prosecutions, one of only three Senior Counsel in his division, with an office on the sixth floor of the Innes Court building on Pritchard Street in downtown Johannesburg.2016, Alex Eliseev, chapter 28, in Cold Case Confession: Unravelling the Betty Ketani Murder, Johannesburg: Pan Macmillan South Africa, →ISBN, page 149

Senior Counsel meaning in Tamil

Senior Counsel in Tamil

முதுநிலை வழக்குரைஞர்

Forms of Senior Counsel

pluralSenior Counsel
pluralSenior Counsels
abbreviationSC

Origin of Senior Counsel

From senior + counsel.

Questions about Senior Counsel

What does Senior Counsel mean?
Senior Counsel means an honorific status officially conferred on senior or meritorious barristers (and occasionally other kinds of lawyer).
What is Senior Counsel in Tamil?
Senior Counsel in Tamil is முதுநிலை வழக்குரைஞர். See Senior Counsel meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Senior Counsel?
Senior Counsel is a noun.
What is the plural of Senior Counsel?
The plural of Senior Counsel is Senior Counsel.

Words near Senior Counsel in the dictionary

  1. senior citizens
  2. senior college
  3. senior colleges
  4. senior colonel
  5. senior colonels
  6. Senior Counsel
  7. Senior Counsels
  8. senior high
  9. senior high school
  10. senior high schools
  11. senior higher

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Senior Counsel (page history and authors); senior counsel (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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