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Words people most associate with “attorney”:
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Noun (1 meaning)
1. a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice.
attorney is a type of:
- professional, professional person (noun) - a person engaged in one of the learned professions
types of attorney:
- advocate, counsel, counselor, counsellor, counselor-at-law, pleader (noun) - a lawyer who pleads cases in court
- ambulance chaser (noun) - an unethical lawyer who incites accident victims to sue
- barrister (noun) - a British or Canadian lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law on behalf of either the defense or prosecution
- conveyancer (noun) - a lawyer who specializes in the business of conveying properties
- defense attorney, defense lawyer (noun) - the lawyer representing the defendant
- divorce lawyer (noun) - a lawyer specializing in actions for divorce or annulment
- prosecutor, public prosecutor, prosecuting officer, prosecuting attorney (noun) - a government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state
- public defender (noun) - a lawyer who represents indigent defendants at public expense
- referee (noun) - an attorney appointed by a court to investigate and report on a case
- solicitor (noun) - a British lawyer who gives legal advice and prepares legal documents
- trial attorney, trial lawyer (noun) - a lawyer who specializes in defending clients before a court of law
instances of attorney:
- Averroes, ibn-Roshd, Abul-Walid Mohammed ibn-Ahmad Ibn-Mohammed ibn-Roshd (noun) - Arabian philosopher born in Spain
- Bryan, William Jennings Bryan, Great Commoner, Boy Orator of the Platte (noun) - United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925)
- Darrow, Clarence Darrow, Clarence Seward Darrow (noun) - United States lawyer famous for his defense of lost causes (1857-1938)
- Hays, Arthur Garfield Hays (noun) - United States lawyer involved in several famous court trials (1881-1954)
- Hays, Will Hays, William Harrison Hays (noun) - United States lawyer and politician who formulated a production code that prescribed the moral content of United States films from 1930 to 1966 (1879-1954)
- Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, John Edgar Hoover (noun) - United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972)
- Key, Francis Scott Key (noun) - United States lawyer and poet who wrote a poem after witnessing the British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812
- Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln, President Lincoln, President Abraham Lincoln (noun) - 16th President of the United States
attorney is a member of:
- lawyer-client relation, attorney-client relation (noun) - the responsibility of a lawyer to act in the best interests of the client
attorney is derivationally related to:
- attorneyship (noun) - the position of attorney
- law, practice of law (noun) - the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system
Domain of synset - TOPIC:
- law, jurisprudence (noun) - the collection of rules imposed by authority