lawyer

CEFRA2

/ˈlɔːjə(ɹ)/

noun

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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.
Any of various plants that have hooked thorns.

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She's a well-known lawyer with many famous clients.
A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade. [one of various versions of an aphorism in law]
You've been lawyered!

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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;[…].
1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
Mr. Wells was a pleasant man of middle-age, with keen eyes, and the typical lawyer’s mouth.
1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 59
The species of Eugnomus are very partial to the lawyer (Rubus australis ) when in bloom.
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
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.
1885, New Zealand Journal of Science - Volume 2, page 417
A plant that is excessively troublesome in the localities where the native vegetation has been least disturbed is the “lawyer” (Rubus australis).
1915, John Henderson, P. Marshall, Percy Gates Morgan, The Geology and Mineral Resources of the Reefton Subdivision, Westport and North Westland Division, page 6

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From Middle English lawiere, lawier, lawer, equivalent to law + -yer.