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attorney definition

at·tor·ney (ə tʉr)

noun pl. attorneys -·neys

any person legally empowered to act as agent for, or in behalf of, another; esp., a lawyer

Etymology: ME attourne < OFr atourne, (one) appointed, pp. of atourner: see attorn

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attorney Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • york: In the past eliminating the use new york attorney.

Adjective modifier

  • semiretired: Semiretired attorney and to have pretty he explains how.

Modifies a noun

  • malpractice: Impairment was also associated with substantial costs, e.g. attorney malpractice and the Washington State Bar Association discipline process.

Noun used with modifier

  • defense: She is your teacher, your defense attorney, your personal press agent, even your shrink.

Preposition: with

  • mintz: Attorney with mintz the percent of to acknowledge the a health insurance.
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Even an attorney of modest talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game ofchance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

-Capote,Truman

So I fell in love with a rich attorney's Elderly, ugly daughter.

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)

When I was a lad I served a term As office boy to an attorney's firm. I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor, And I polished up the handle of the big front door. I polished up that handle so carefullee That now I am the Ruler of the Queen's Navee!

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)

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