attorney(n = noun.person) lawyer - a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice;
is a kind of professional, professional person
is a member of attorney-client relation, lawyer-client relation
has particulars: advocate, counsel, counsellor, counselor, counselor-at-law, pleader, ambulance chaser, barrister, conveyancer, defense attorney, defense lawyer, divorce lawyer, prosecuting attorney, prosecuting officer, prosecutor, public prosecutor, public defender, referee, solicitor, trial attorney, trial lawyer, abul-walid mohammed ibn-ahmad ibn-mohammed ibn-roshd, averroes, ibn-roshd, boy orator of the platte, bryan, great commoner, william jennings bryan, clarence darrow, clarence seward darrow, darrow, arthur garfield hays, hays, hays, will hays, william harrison hays, hoover, j. edgar hoover, john edgar hoover, francis scott key, key, abraham lincoln, lincoln, president abraham lincoln, president lincoln
Derived form noun attorneyship1
1. A substitute; a proxy; an agent. [1913 Webster]
"And will have no attorney but myself." [1913 Webster]
2. One who is legally appointed by another to transact any business for him; an attorney in fact. [1913 Webster]
" An attorney is either public or private. A private attorney, or an attorney in fact, is a person appointed by another, by a letter or power of attorney, to transact any business for him out of court; but in a more extended sense, this class includes any agent employed in any business, or to do any act in pais, for another. A public attorney, or attorney at law, is a practitioner in a court of law, legally qualified to prosecute and defend actions in such court, on the retainer of clients.
To perform by proxy; to employ as a proxy. Shak. [1913 Webster]
attorney, n. (pl. -eys)
1 a person, esp. a lawyer, appointed to act for another in business or legal matters.
2 US a qualified lawyer, esp. one representing a client in a lawcourt.
Idiom:
Attorney General the chief legal officer in England, the US, and other countries. District Attorney see DISTRICT. power of attorney the authority to act for another person in legal or financial matters.
Derivative:
attorneyship n.
Etymology:
ME f. OF atorn{eacute} past part. of atorner assign f. {agrave} to + torner turn
N consignee, trustee, nominee, committee, agent, delegate, commissary, commissioner, emissary, envoy, commissionaire, messenger, diplomatist, diplomat, diplomate, corps diplomatique, embassy, ambassador, embassador, representative, resident, consul, legate, nuncio, internuncio, charge d'affaires, attache, vicegerent, plenipotentiary, functionary, placeman, curator, treasurer, factor, bailiff, clerk, secretary, attorney, advocate, solicitor, proctor, broker, underwriter, commission agent, auctioneer, one's man of business, factotum, caretaker, dalal, dubash, garnishee, gomashta, negotiator, go-between, middleman, under agent, employe, servant, referee, arbitrator, traveler, bagman, commis-voyageur, touter, commercial traveler, drummer, traveling man, newspaper correspondent, own correspondent, special correspondent.
N legality, legitimacy, legitimateness, legislature, law, code, corpus juris, constitution, pandect, charter, enactment, statute, rule, canon, ordinance, institution, regulation, bylaw, byelaw, decree, ordonnance, standing order, plebiscite, legal process, form, formula, formality, rite, arm of the law, habeas corpus, fieri facias, jurisprudence, nomology, legislation, codification, equity, common law, lex, lex nonscripta, law of nations, droit des gens, international law, jus gentium, jus civile, civil law, canon law, crown law, criminal law, statute law, ecclesiastical law, administrative law, lex mercatoria, constitutionalism, constitutionality, justice, court, tribunal, judge, lawyer, attorney, legal counsel, legal, legitimate, according to law, vested, constitutional, chartered, legalized, lawful, statutable, statutory, legislatorial, legislative, regulatory, regulated, legally, in the eye of the law, de jure, ignorantia legis neminem excusat, ignorance of the law is no excuse, where law ends tyranny begins.
N lawyer, attorney, legal counsel, counsel, counsellor, counsellor at law, attorney at law, jurist, legist, civilian, pundit, publicist, juris consult, legal adviser, advocate, barrister, barrister at law, King's or Queen's counsel, K, C, Q, C, silk gown, leader, sergeant-at-law, bencher, tubman, judge, bar, legal profession, bar association, association of trial lawyers, officer of the court, gentleman of the long robe, junior bar, outer bar, inner bar, equity draftsman, conveyancer, pleader, special pleader, solicitor, proctor, notary, notary public, scrivener, cursitor, writer, writer to the signet, S, S, C, limb of the law, pettifogger, vakil, legal beagle, legal secretary, legal assistant, law student, learned in the law, at the bar, forensic, esquire, esquired, banco regis.
attorney general, attorney general of the united states, defense attorney, district attorney, power of attorney, prosecuting attorney, right to an attorney, state attorney, state's attorney, trial attorney, united states attorney general, us attorney general