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单词 lawyer
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Definition of lawyer in English:

lawyer

noun ˈlɔɪəˈlɔːjəˈlɔɪər
  • A person who practises or studies law, especially (in the UK) a solicitor or a barrister or (in the US) an attorney.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Immigration lawyers and judges are thus drawn into a debate that is less and less theoretical.
    • Civil and common law lawyers have been multivalent without talking much about it.
    • They are the cost of going to the court at all, lawyers or no lawyers.
    • Common law lawyers tend to talk about things assuming everyone knows what they mean.
    • Obviously a purchaser may or may not choose to give power of attorney to their lawyer.
    • Women attorneys, doctors and lawyers are found in the provinces as well as in urban areas.
    • It probably knew the judge was married to a lawyer, and thus had access to a free attorney.
    • In a sense, you know who the plaintiffs' lawyers are; they are quite well known.
    • The canon lawyer called by the Plaintiffs also confirmed the church's policy of secrecy.
    • Nor will defendants who lose be made to pay more because the claimant's lawyers are being paid extra under a conditional fee.
    • The lawyers and judges involved in its administration tend to be made from the same cloth and are regarded as no better.
    • That only can be given to a representative or solicitor or a lawyer, or a court official.
    • We don't know, because the Act also permits the litigant and his lawyers to be excluded from the court.
    • In a court you will never get completely unbiased when lawyers are ruling on lawyers, will you?
    • It also placed the lawyer who signed the affidavit of documents in jeopardy of an award of costs against him.
    • While the lawyers were with the judge, he sat and waited at one end of the hallway on the fourth floor.
    • The Attorney general is a lawyer employed by the government of the day to provide legal advice that his client asks for.
    • This is particularly true in schemes operated in many States where public defence lawyers are assigned to cases.
    • Once you get lawyers and solicitors involved things tend to get dragged out.
    • Despite the pleas of defence lawyers, the attorney general appeared to do nothing to urge restraint.
    Synonyms
    legal practitioner, attorney, legal officer, legal adviser, legal representative, legal executive, agent, member of the bar
    informal brief
verb ˈlɔɪəˈlɔːjəˈlɔɪər
[no object]North American
  • 1Practise law; work as a lawyer.

    lawyering is a craft that takes a long time to become proficient at
    Example sentencesExamples
    • However, from watching her ‘host’ tonight's programming, it is clearly obvious that she has zero media potential, and should go back to lawyering.
    • All three came to the bench from lawyering, not from judging or the academy.
    • Thus, a person can become managing partner for a variety of reasons, some of which may be related to intellect and lawyering skill but some of which have nothing to do with those qualities.
    • We now need a term for the moral inverse of ‘honest graft’, organized corruption, with no redeeming features, which is yet thoroughly lawyered and irreproachable before the law.
    • The fact is that although the Prime Minister was elected to lead the country, he never stopped lawyering on the side.
    • He is not even on our radar, because we need a leader to stop lawyering and start leading.
    • I'm just so concerned, you know, they talk about the great lawyering this defense attorney did.
    • Why would a judge make a habit of not assigning counsel or, in a contract system, condone lawyering that is like nothing at all?
    • This strikes me as a bit convoluted but he is lawyering and I do not know anything about this stuff.
    • Judging is different from lawyering, but common law judges are not trained separately from lawyers; they are barristers one day and judges the next.
    • And it seems his experience with the litigation is one thing that led him from theology to lawyering.
    • He plays at lawyering, and we all pay for it
    • And yet these medical fraudsters have deep pockets, and so he is lawyering against a government that he belongs to, and took an oath to uphold.
    • ‘The objective is to internalize pro bono lawyering as part of our psyche as well as part of our profession,’ he said.
    • Revised the probationary program with additional class time, student evaluations and a stronger focus on lawyering skills and strategies.
    • Legal practitioners have a vast comparative advantage over law schools in teaching practical lawyering skills.
    • Right now he is member of Parliament, and still lawyering around.
    1. 1.1with object (of a lawyer) work on the legal aspects of (a contract, lawsuit, etc.)
      there is always a danger that the deal will be lawyered to death
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A substantial and somewhat turgid passage that will have been severely lawyered before it was allowed out, but even so, you begin to get a message, of sorts.
      • This idea may not even require a Memorandum of Understanding, a heavily lawyered process that failed other cities in the past.
      • Of course, the judge cannot have had any intention of overseeing half-a-million mini-trials on causation, nor can they have had any intention of lawyering them.
      • The heavily lawyered press release is very suspicious and leads one to conclude that he had in fact divulged the information.
      • Instead, it's clear that they lawyered it within an inch of its life - a bunch of legal eagles with faint hearts removing any juice and most of the meat from it.

Derivatives

  • lawyerly

  • adjective
    • The West's appreciation for the rule of law can be seen in the lawyerly parsing of targets to ensure that they are valid and military in nature.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The letters he sent to his captors, often in shaky, hard-to-read handwriting, reveal the lawyerly and uncompromising precision of his approach.
      • In practice, this lawyerly distinction hasn't worked.
      • Putting witnesses under oath induces them to weigh every word with lawyerly care rather than freely volunteer information.
      • His lawyerly grasp of a brief on every subject gives him the edge over questioners every time.
      • Eventually they believe that there must be something to the charges because the endless parsing of it sounds lawyerly, desperate and boring.

Rhymes

annoyer, Boyer, destroyer, employer, enjoyer, Goya, hoya, Nagoya, paranoia, sequoia, soya
 
 

Definition of lawyer in US English:

lawyer

nounˈloiərˈlɔɪər
  • A person who practices or studies law; an attorney or a counselor.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This is particularly true in schemes operated in many States where public defence lawyers are assigned to cases.
    • The canon lawyer called by the Plaintiffs also confirmed the church's policy of secrecy.
    • It probably knew the judge was married to a lawyer, and thus had access to a free attorney.
    • They are the cost of going to the court at all, lawyers or no lawyers.
    • Despite the pleas of defence lawyers, the attorney general appeared to do nothing to urge restraint.
    • That only can be given to a representative or solicitor or a lawyer, or a court official.
    • Nor will defendants who lose be made to pay more because the claimant's lawyers are being paid extra under a conditional fee.
    • In a court you will never get completely unbiased when lawyers are ruling on lawyers, will you?
    • While the lawyers were with the judge, he sat and waited at one end of the hallway on the fourth floor.
    • Civil and common law lawyers have been multivalent without talking much about it.
    • Common law lawyers tend to talk about things assuming everyone knows what they mean.
    • We don't know, because the Act also permits the litigant and his lawyers to be excluded from the court.
    • Women attorneys, doctors and lawyers are found in the provinces as well as in urban areas.
    • It also placed the lawyer who signed the affidavit of documents in jeopardy of an award of costs against him.
    • Obviously a purchaser may or may not choose to give power of attorney to their lawyer.
    • The Attorney general is a lawyer employed by the government of the day to provide legal advice that his client asks for.
    • In a sense, you know who the plaintiffs' lawyers are; they are quite well known.
    • Immigration lawyers and judges are thus drawn into a debate that is less and less theoretical.
    • Once you get lawyers and solicitors involved things tend to get dragged out.
    • The lawyers and judges involved in its administration tend to be made from the same cloth and are regarded as no better.
    Synonyms
    legal practitioner, attorney, legal officer, legal adviser, legal representative, legal executive, agent, member of the bar
verbˈloiərˈlɔɪər
[no object]North American
  • 1Practice law; work as a lawyer.

    lawyering is a craft that takes a long time to become proficient at
    Example sentencesExamples
    • However, from watching her ‘host’ tonight's programming, it is clearly obvious that she has zero media potential, and should go back to lawyering.
    • I'm just so concerned, you know, they talk about the great lawyering this defense attorney did.
    • Legal practitioners have a vast comparative advantage over law schools in teaching practical lawyering skills.
    • Thus, a person can become managing partner for a variety of reasons, some of which may be related to intellect and lawyering skill but some of which have nothing to do with those qualities.
    • All three came to the bench from lawyering, not from judging or the academy.
    • Judging is different from lawyering, but common law judges are not trained separately from lawyers; they are barristers one day and judges the next.
    • Why would a judge make a habit of not assigning counsel or, in a contract system, condone lawyering that is like nothing at all?
    • ‘The objective is to internalize pro bono lawyering as part of our psyche as well as part of our profession,’ he said.
    • Revised the probationary program with additional class time, student evaluations and a stronger focus on lawyering skills and strategies.
    • The fact is that although the Prime Minister was elected to lead the country, he never stopped lawyering on the side.
    • He plays at lawyering, and we all pay for it
    • And yet these medical fraudsters have deep pockets, and so he is lawyering against a government that he belongs to, and took an oath to uphold.
    • He is not even on our radar, because we need a leader to stop lawyering and start leading.
    • This strikes me as a bit convoluted but he is lawyering and I do not know anything about this stuff.
    • And it seems his experience with the litigation is one thing that led him from theology to lawyering.
    • Right now he is member of Parliament, and still lawyering around.
    • We now need a term for the moral inverse of ‘honest graft’, organized corruption, with no redeeming features, which is yet thoroughly lawyered and irreproachable before the law.
    1. 1.1with object (of a lawyer) work on the legal aspects of (a contract, lawsuit, etc.)
      there is always a danger that the deal will be lawyered to death
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This idea may not even require a Memorandum of Understanding, a heavily lawyered process that failed other cities in the past.
      • Of course, the judge cannot have had any intention of overseeing half-a-million mini-trials on causation, nor can they have had any intention of lawyering them.
      • Instead, it's clear that they lawyered it within an inch of its life - a bunch of legal eagles with faint hearts removing any juice and most of the meat from it.
      • A substantial and somewhat turgid passage that will have been severely lawyered before it was allowed out, but even so, you begin to get a message, of sorts.
      • The heavily lawyered press release is very suspicious and leads one to conclude that he had in fact divulged the information.
 
 
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