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In some senses, lawyer is marked as informal, UK, colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
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.
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;[…].
Mr. Wells was a pleasant man of middle-age, with keen eyes, and the typical lawyer’s mouth.
A legal layman who argues points of law.
The burbot.
The stem of a bramble.
verb
To practice law.
To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer.
To make legalistic arguments.
To barrage (a person) with questions in order to get them to admit something.
You've been lawyered!
name
A male given name.