Usually means: Lawyer provided for indigent defendants.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word public defender:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. public defender: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. public defender: Merriam-Webster
  3. public defender: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. public defender: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. public defender: Collins English Dictionary
  6. public defender: Vocabulary.com
  7. public defender: Wiktionary
  8. public defender: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. public defender: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. public defender: Dictionary.com
  11. Public Defender (film), Public Defender, Public defender (United States), Public defender, The Public Defender: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. public defender: Rhymezone
  13. public defender: FreeDictionary.org
  14. public defender: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. public defender: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. public defender: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. public defender: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Public Defender: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. public defender: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. public defender: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See public_defenders as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (public defender)

noun:  (law) An attorney appointed to represent people who cannot afford to hire one.

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