barristernoun [ C ]
uk/ˈbær.ɪ.stər/us/ˈber.ə.stɚ/a type of lawyer in the UK , Australia, and some other countries who can give specialized legal advice and can argue a case in both higher and lower courts
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Lawyers & legal officials
- advocate
- articled
- attorney
- attorney general
- bailiff
- bar
- coroner
- counsel
- counsellor
- district attorney
- draftswoman
- I rest my case idiom
- KC
- law clerk
- marshal
- probation officer
- prosecution
- prosecutor
- public defender
- public prosecutor
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Examples from literature
- Few occupations more aptly illustrate this difference than those of solicitor and barrister.
- He repeated this remark to the barrister when he reached Brett's chambers.
- I said you were going to be a barrister or a judge or something.
- Innumerable lawsuits grew out of the act, and the courts and barristers held to conflicting interpretations and constructions.
- Why the barrister should have betrayed his client is not clear.