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LAWYER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice
Synonyms:
attorney; lawyer
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("lawyer" is a kind of...):
professional; professional person (a person engaged in one of the learned professions)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lawyer"):
trial attorney; trial lawyer (a lawyer who specializes in defending clients before a court of law)
solicitor (a British lawyer who gives legal advice and prepares legal documents)
referee (an attorney appointed by a court to investigate and report on a case)
public defender (a lawyer who represents indigent defendants at public expense)
prosecuting attorney; prosecuting officer; prosecutor; public prosecutor (a government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state)
divorce lawyer (a lawyer specializing in actions for divorce or annulment)
defense attorney; defense lawyer (the lawyer representing the defendant)
conveyancer (a lawyer who specializes in the business of conveying properties)
barrister (a British or Canadian lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law on behalf of either the defense or prosecution)
ambulance chaser (an unethical lawyer who incites accident victims to sue)
advocate; counsel; counsellor; counselor; counselor-at-law; pleader (a lawyer who pleads cases in court)
Instance hyponyms:
Abul-Walid Mohammed ibn-Ahmad Ibn-Mohammed ibn-Roshd; Averroes; ibn-Roshd (Arabian philosopher born in Spain; wrote detailed commentaries on Aristotle that were admired by the Schoolmen (1126-1198))
Boy Orator of the Platte; Bryan; Great Commoner; William Jennings Bryan (United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925))
Clarence Darrow; Clarence Seward Darrow; Darrow (United States lawyer famous for his defense of lost causes (1857-1938))
Arthur Garfield Hays; 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))
Francis Scott Key; Key (United States lawyer and poet who wrote a poem after witnessing the British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812; the poem was later set to music and entitled 'The Star-Spangled Banner' (1779-1843))
Abraham Lincoln; Lincoln; President Abraham Lincoln; President Lincoln (16th President of the United States; saved the Union during the American Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865))
Holonyms ("lawyer" is a member of...):
attorney-client relation; lawyer-client relation (the responsibility of a lawyer to act in the best interests of the client)
Derivation:
law (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system)
Context examples:
You must suppose me designed for some profession, and might perceive that I am neither a lawyer, nor a soldier, nor a sailor.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
“I suppose you are quite a great lawyer?” I said, after looking at him for some time.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“I was born in Posilippo, near Naples,” said she, “and was the daughter of Augusto Barelli, who was the chief lawyer and once the deputy of that part.”
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A power of attorney is a legal document that gives one person (such as a relative, lawyer, or friend) the authority to make legal, medical, or financial decisions for another person.
(DPA, NCI Dictionary)
A type of advance directive that gives a person (such as a relative, lawyer, or friend) the authority to make healthcare decisions for another person.
(HCP, NCI Dictionary)
A person who helps a patient work with others who have an effect on the patient's health, including doctors, insurance companies, employers, case managers, and lawyers.
(Patient advocate, NCI Dictionary)
Old Acton has some claim on half Cunningham’s estate, and the lawyers have been at it with both hands.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was languidly interested by the papers in his hand, and page after page was turned as he followed the argument of the lawyer.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mr. John Knightley's being a lawyer is very inconvenient.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The lawyer plods, quite care-worn; the physician is up at all hours, and travelling in all weather; and even the clergyman— she stopt a moment to consider what might do for the clergyman;—and even the clergyman, you know is obliged to go into infected rooms, and expose his health and looks to all the injury of a poisonous atmosphere.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
