lawyer

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈlɔːjə(ɹ)/|/ˈlɔɪ.ə(ɹ)/    美 /ˈlɔɪ.ɚ/|/ˈlɔ.jɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A professional person with a graduate law degree that qualifies for legal work (such as Juris Doctor)
  2. 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;[…].
  3. A legal layman who argues points of law. broadly
  4. The burbot. UK,colloquial
  5. The stem of a bramble. UK,dialectal
  6. Any of various plants that have hooked thorns.; A relative of the raspberry found in Australia and New Zealand, Rubus australis
    — The species of Eugnomus are very partial to the lawyer (Rubus australis ) when in bloom.
  7. Any of various plants that have hooked thorns.; Various species of Calamus, including Calamus australis, Calamus muelleri, Calamus obstruens, Calamus vitiensis, Calamus warburgii, and Calamus moti.
    — Besides the bags and nets common throughout the continent, these tribes have water-bags, which they make of closely-plaited “lawyer” (Calamus Australis), and also of palm-leaf sewn with the sinews of animals.
  8. Any of various plants that have hooked thorns.; A woody climbing rainforest vine, Flagellaria indica.
    — The stems of the "lawyer vine" (Flagellaria indica), buz or buzi (W.), boz (E.), are used in house-building, tying fences, etc.
动词 v.
  1. To practice law. informal,intransitive
  2. To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer. intransitive
  3. To make legalistic arguments. intransitive
  4. To barrage (a person) with questions in order to get them to admit something. informal,transitive
    — You've been lawyered!

词形变化

lawyers plural lawer alternative,obsolete lawyers present,singular,third-person lawyering participle,present lawyered participle,past lawyered past lawer alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
abogado advocate attorney avocat counsel counselor latitat lawman lawyer legal representative limb of the law man of law
反义词
non-lawyer
上位词
advisor agent arguer jurist
下位词
attorney-at-law avvocato barrister corporate lawyer criminal lawyer cyberlawyer defence lawyer defense attorney defender general counsel judge advocate King's Counsel labour lawyer lawyeress lawyerling legal eagle mouthpiece one-horse lawyer pettifogger Philadelphia lawyer prosecuting attorney prosecutor public defender Queen's Counsel sea lawyer Senior Counsel sharia lawyer shyster silk solicitor superlawyer underlawyer
衍生词
antilawyer barrack-room lawyer barracks lawyer barracks room lawyer bush lawyer canon lawyer common lawyer corporate lawyer corporation lawyer criminal lawyer cyberlawyer defence lawyer defense lawyer jailhouse lawyer labour lawyer lake lawyer language lawyer lawyerball lawyer cane lawyerdom lawyerese lawyeress lawyer foyer lawyering lawyerish lawyerism lawyerless lawyerlike lawyerling lawyerly lawyer-readable lawyership lawyer-speak lawyerspeak lawyer vine lawyery neurolawyer nonlawyer non-lawyer one-horse lawyer outlawyer Penang lawyer Philadelphia lawyer professional support lawyer robolawyer rules lawyer sea-lawyer sea lawyer sharia lawyer superlawyer underlawyer unlawyered
相关词
lawyer up barrister solicitor

词源

词源 1
From Middle English lawiere, lawier, lawer, equivalent to law + -yer.
词源 2
From Middle English lawiere, lawier, lawer, equivalent to law + -yer.
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