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English

Alternative forms

• lawer (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English lawier, lawyer, lawer, equivalent to law +? -yer.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l??j?(?)/, /?l??.?(?)/
• (US, Northern and Western) IPA^(key): /?l??.?/
• (US, Southern) IPA^(key): /?l?.j?/
• Rhymes: -??.?, -??.?(?), -???(?)
• Hyphenation: law?yer

Noun

lawyer (plural lawyers)

1. A professional person qualified (as by a law degree or bar exam) and authorized to practice law, 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; […].

   A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade. - aphorism often credited to Abraham Lincoln, but without attestation

2. (by extension) A legal layman who argues points of law.
3. (Britain, colloquial) The burbot.
4. (Britain, dialect, botany) The stem of a bramble.
5. Any of various plants. This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Synonyms

• advocate
• attorney
• counselor

Derived terms

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Verb

lawyer (third-person singular simple present lawyers, present participle lawyering, simple past and past participle lawyered)

1. (informal, intransitive) To practice law.
2. (intransitive) To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer.
3. (intransitive) To make legalistic arguments.
4. (informal, transitive) To barrage (a person) with questions in order to get them to admit something.

   You've been lawyered!

Related terms

• lawyer up

See also

• solicitor
• barrister

References

Anagrams

• Rawley, warely, yawler

Middle English

Noun

lawyer

1. Alternative form of lawier

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French barbote, from Latin barba (“a beard”). Displaced native eelpout.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?(?).b?t/

Noun

burbot (plural burbots)

1. A freshwater fish, taxonomic name Lota lota, which is similar to the ling and the cusk and spawns in the winter.

Synonyms

• eel-pout
• lawyer

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