attorney
IPA: ʌtˈɝni
noun
- (US) A lawyer; one who advises or represents others in legal matters as a profession.
- (UK, dated, 19th century and earlier) One such who practised in the courts of the common law.
- (UK, 20th century and later, rare, usually derogatory) A solicitor.
- (obsolete outside set phrases) An agent or representative authorized to act on someone else's behalf.
- (Philippines, sometimes US) An honorific given to lawyers and notaries public, or those holders by profession who also do other jobs. Usually capitalized or abbreviated as Atty.
- Clusia spp.
- A prosecutor
verb
- (intransitive, rare) To work as a legal attorney.
- (transitive, rare) To provide with a legal attorney.
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Examples of "attorney" in Sentences
- The female assessor was the attorney.
- The Attorney General prosecuted the case.
- The attorneys had to call in the accountants.
- Attorney are reluctant for the defendant be the affiant.
- Attorneys for the indigent are provided at state expense.
- (A) a court in which the attorney is authorized to practice; or
- In Samoa, the Attorney General is the legal adviser to the government.
- The legal adviser to the Council of Ministers is the Attorney General.
- The Attorney General provides legal advice to the Government of the day.
- The office of the Attorney General serves as legal counsel to the commission.
- The Attorney General is the chief legal advisor of the government of Zimbabwe.
- Never mind that an "attorney" is nothing more than a lawyer who wants to sound more important than he really is.
- This attorney is a good tax attorney, but is a federal practitioner and not as familiar with state issues as one would wish.
- From there, supposedly they will let you call your attorney and your attorney is supposedly able to get you out of jail into a hotel.
- The first day I hired my title attorney I mentioned to her that I wanted my mother to be on the deed in order to get the taxes reduced.
- Near each courthouse is a title attorney that duplicates the county records of all transactions so he can readily update any abstract presented tohim.
- As all crimes and breaches of the peace are considered as committed against the state, and prosecuted in its name, this attorney is sometimes called _state's attorney_.
- At the end of the day, we feel more secure because the federal prison population has swelled ever so slightly with the occasional inclusion of a title attorney, mortgage broker, or real estate investor.
- Owens also said he intends to end what he calls the attorney general's "slush fund" -- back taxes, fraud and other collections pursued by the office, a portion of which are retained by the office for its uses.
- They hear all complaints brought before them against persons for crimes and breaches of the peace, and examine witnesses who appear to testify; and when it is requested, they have the assistance and advice of the state's attorney; or as he is called in some states, the _district attorney_, or