How to pronounce “lawyer”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A professional person with a graduate law degree that qualifies for legal work (such as Juris Doctor)
• 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.
• (by extension) A legal layman who argues points of law.
• (UK, colloquial) The burbot.
• (UK, dialect) The stem of a bramble.
• Any of various plants that have hooked thorns.
• [Verb]
• (informal, intransitive) To practice law.
• (intransitive) To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer.
• (intransitive) To make legalistic arguments.
• (informal, transitive) To barrage (a person) with questions in order to get them to admit something.

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