solicitor

IPA: sʌɫˈɪsʌtɝ

One who solicits.
In many common law jurisdictions, a type of lawyer whose traditional role is to offer legal services to clients apart from acting as their advocate in court. A solicitor instructs barristers to act as an advocate for their client in court, although rights of audience for solicitors vary according to jurisdiction.
In English Canada and in parts of Australia, a type of lawyer who historically held the same role as above, but whose role has in modern times been merged with that of a barrister.
In parts of the U.S., the chief legal officer of a city, town or other jurisdiction.
(Canada, US) A person soliciting sales, especially door to door.

Examples of "solicitor" in Sentences

In the USA the term solicitor has nothing to do with the practice of law.
Because on this side of the pond, what we call a solicitor is what you call an attorney.
The practising solicitor is constantly concerned with what some people would consider to be trifles.
The solicitor is the one who has the defendant or plaintiff as a client, and can sue for unpaid fees.
Court Justice John Paul Stevens, he called the solicitor general and former Harvard Law School dean "one of the nation's foremost legal minds."
So I called my solicitor, I remember the first time she explained to me about SIAC, and secret evidence, and she said 'I'll try to get you out, but ...'
He'd play a lawyer-sorry, "solicitor" -- involved in settling an estate, meeting the widow, discovering strange supernatural things about the house where the deceased lived.
Lady Margaret Huggins (1848-1915), the daughter of a Dublin solicitor, became a pioneer of astronomical spectroscopy in partnership with her husband, Sir William Huggins (1824-1910) at their home in Tulse Hill