public defendernoun [ C ]
uk/ˌpʌb.lɪk dɪˈfen.dər//ˌpʌb.lɪk dɪˈfen.dɚ/in the US and some other countries, a lawyer paid for by the government to represent an accused person who cannot pay for a private lawyer
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Lawyers & legal officials
- advocate
- articled
- attorney
- attorney general
- bailiff
- bar
- coroner
- counsel
- counsellor
- Director of Public Prosecutions
- district attorney
- draftswoman
- I rest my case idiom
- KC
- marshal
- paralegal
- probation officer
- prosecution
- prosecutor
- public prosecutor
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