Usually means: Professional advocating in legal matters.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word lawyer:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. lawyer: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lawyer: Merriam-Webster
  3. lawyer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lawyer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lawyer: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lawyer: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lawyer, lawyer: Wordnik
  8. lawyer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Lawyer, lawyer: Wiktionary
  10. lawyer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lawyer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lawyer: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Lawyer, lawyer: Dictionary.com
  14. lawyer: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. lawyer: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Lawyer (disambiguation), Lawyer, The Lawyer (film), The Lawyer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Lawyer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. lawyer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. lawyer: Rhymezone
  20. lawyer: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. lawyer: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. LAWYER: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. lawyer: FreeDictionary.org
  24. lawyer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. lawyer: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. lawyer: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lawyer: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. lawyer: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. lawyer: Legal dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lawyer (fish), lawyer: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. lawyer: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lawyer: Easton Bible
  2. Lawyer: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lawyer: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

(Note: See lawyering as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A professional person with a graduate law degree that qualifies for legal work (such as Juris Doctor)
noun:  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.
noun:  (by extension) A legal layman who argues points of law.
noun:  (UK, colloquial) The burbot.
noun:  (UK, dialect) The stem of a bramble.
noun:  Any of various plants that have hooked thorns.
noun:  A relative of the raspberry found in Australia and New Zealand, Rubus australis
noun:  Various species of Calamus, including Calamus australis, Calamus muelleri, Calamus obstruens, Calamus vitiensis, Calamus warburgii, and Calamus moti.
noun:  A woody climbing rainforest vine, Flagellaria indica.
verb:  (informal, intransitive) To practice law.
verb:  (intransitive) To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer.
verb:  (intransitive) To make legalistic arguments.
verb:  (informal, transitive) To barrage (a person) with questions in order to get them to admit something.
noun:  A male given name.

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