attorney
Pronunciation: /əˈtɜːni/
The English word “attorney” has 9 meanings listed here.
noun
- A lawyer; one who advises or represents others in legal matters as a profession.
- An agent or representative authorized to act on someone else's behalf in accordance with that person's instructions.
- One such who practised in the courts of the common law.
- A solicitor.
- An honorific given to lawyers and notaries public, or those holders by profession who also do other jobs. Usually capitalized or abbreviated as Atty.
- An attorney tree (Clusia spp.)
- A prosecutor.
verb
Etymology
From Middle English attourne, from Old French atorné, past participle of atorner, atourner, aturner (“to attorn”), in the sense of "one appointed or constituted".
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