lawyer
See also: Lawyer
English
editAlternative forms
edit- lawer (obsolete)
Etymology
editFrom Middle English lawier, lawyer, lawer, equivalent to law + -yer.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈlɔːjə(ɹ)/, /ˈlɔɪ.ə(ɹ)/[1]
- (US, Northern and Western) IPA(key): /ˈlɔɪ.ɚ/
Audio (US): (file) - (US, Southern) IPA(key): /ˈlɔ.jɚ/
- Hyphenation: law‧yer
- Rhymes: -ɔɪ.ə(ɹ), -ɔː.jə(ɹ)
- Rhymes: -ɔɪə(ɹ)
Noun
editlawyer (plural lawyers)
- A professional person with a graduate law degree that qualifies for legal work (such as Juris Doctor)
- 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.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- 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
- (by extension) A legal layman who argues points of law.
- (UK, colloquial) The burbot.
- (UK, dialect) The stem of a bramble.
- Any of various plants that have hooked thorns.
- A relative of the raspberry found in Australia and New Zealand, Rubus australis
- 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:
- The species of Eugnomus are very partial to the lawyer (Rubus australis ) when in bloom.
- 1885, New Zealand Journal of Science - Volume 2, page 417:
- In the lawyer (Rubus australis) a considerable differentiation has taken place. All the alllies of this plant (such as the true roses, brambles, rasps, &c.), exhibit a strong development of epidermal structures in the form of hooks, spines, or hairs, but in none are these structures so perfect as in our lawyer.
- 1915, John Henderson, P. Marshall, Percy Gates Morgan, The Geology and Mineral Resources of the Reefton Subdivision, Westport and North Westland Division, page 6:
- A plant that is excessively troublesome in the localities where the native vegetation has been least disturbed is the “lawyer” (Rubus australis).
- Various species of Calamus, including Calamus australis, Calamus muelleri, Calamus obstruens, Calamus vitiensis, Calamus warburgii, and Calamus moti.
- 1886, Edward Micklethwaite Curr, The Australian Race, page 427:
- Besides the bags and nets common throughout the continent, these tribes have water-bags, which they make of closely-plaited “lawyer” (Calamus Australis), and also of palm-leaf sewn with the sinews of animals.
- 1901, Archibald James Campbell, Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds, page 267:
- The nest was a foot or two from the ground, and placed in a bunch of lawyer (Calamus ) canes.
- 1905, W. J. Gordon, “Jackey Jackey”, in The Boy's Own Annual, volume 28, page 318:
- This lawyer (Calamus australis) is a climbing palm, throwing up shoots from its roots as thick as a man's finger and tough as wire, covered with sharp spines, and bearing much divided leaves, alternating with tendrils twenty feel long.
- 1910 October, Sidney Wm. Jackson, “Additional Notes on Tooth-billed Bower-Bird (Scenopaeetes dentirostris) of North Queensland”, in The Emu: Official Organ of the Australasian Ornithologists' Union, volume 10, page 84:
- They were usually very neatly laid out under arching masses of the exasperating lawyer-palm vines ( Calamus moti and C. australis ), and consequently not too easy to examine.
- 2014, Germaine Greer, White Beech: The Rainforest Years, page 171:
- Lawyer Vine (Calamus muelleri), also known as Hairy Mary and Wait-a-while, is actually a palm, that grows in long canes that loop and snake through the undergrowth.
- 2022, E. J. Banfield, The Confessions of a Beachcomber:
- The trail of the lawyer vine (CALAMUS OBSTRUENS), with its leaf sheath and long tentacles bristling with incurved hooks, is over it all.
- A woody climbing rainforest vine, Flagellaria indica.
- 2011, A. C. Haddon, W. H. R. Rivers, Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, page 89:
- The stems of the "lawyer vine" (Flagellaria indica), buz or buzi (W.), boz (E.), are used in house-building, tying fences, etc.
- A relative of the raspberry found in Australia and New Zealand, Rubus australis
Synonyms
editDerived terms
edit- antilawyer
- barrack-room lawyer
- barracks lawyer
- barracks room lawyer
- bush lawyer
- canon lawyer
- common lawyer
- corporate lawyer
- criminal lawyer
- cyberlawyer
- defence lawyer
- defense lawyer
- jailhouse lawyer
- labour lawyer
- lake lawyer
- lawyerball
- lawyer cane
- lawyerdom
- lawyerese
- lawyeress
- lawyer foyer
- lawyering
- lawyerish
- lawyerism
- lawyerless
- lawyerlike
- lawyerling
- lawyerly
- lawyer-readable
- lawyership
- lawyerspeak
- lawyer-speak
- lawyer vine
- lawyery
- neurolawyer
- nonlawyer
- non-lawyer
- one-horse lawyer
- outlawyer
- Penang lawyer
- Philadelphia lawyer
- professional support lawyer
- robolawyer
- rules lawyer
- sea-lawyer
- sea lawyer
- sharia lawyer
- superlawyer
- underlawyer
- unlawyered
Translations
editprofessional person authorized to practice law
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layman who argues points of law
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Verb
editlawyer (third-person singular simple present lawyers, present participle lawyering, simple past and past participle lawyered)
- (informal, intransitive) To practice law.
- (intransitive) To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer.
- (intransitive) To make legalistic arguments.
- (informal, transitive) To barrage (a person) with questions in order to get them to admit something.
- You've been lawyered!
Related terms
editTranslations
editto practice law
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Oxford English Dictionary. "Lawyer, n."
Anagrams
editMiddle English
editNoun
editlawyer
- Alternative form of lawier
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