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Senior Counsels

Senior Counsels is the plural of Senior Counsel.

Meaning of Senior Counsel

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

Questions about Senior Counsels

What is Senior Counsels the plural of?
Senior Counsels is the plural of Senior Counsel.

Words near Senior Counsels in the dictionary

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

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