Alternativa stavningar

  • (föråldrada ord) lawer

Synonymer

Uttal

  • UttalUS:
    • IPA: /ˈlɔɪ.ɚ/
  • UttalNorthern and Western:
    • IPA: /ˈlɔɪ.ɚ/
  • RP:
    • IPA: /ˈlɔːjə(ɹ)/
    • IPA: /ˈlɔɪ.ə(ɹ)/
  • US:
    • IPA: /ˈlɔ.jɚ/
  • Southern:
    • IPA: /ˈlɔ.jɚ/
  • Okänd accent:
    • IPA: /ˈlɔɪ.ə/
    • IPA: /ˈlɔː.jə/
Översättning
Substantiv
1.avukat

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. A professional person qualified (as by a law degree and/or bar exam) and authorized to practice law, i.e. conduct lawsuits and/or give legal advice.
  2. By extension, a legal layman who argues points of law.

Verb

  1. (informal) To practice law.
  2. To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer.
  3. To make legalistic arguments.
  4. With "up", to acquire the services of a lawyer.
  5. (colloquial, criminal law) With "up", to exercise the right to ask for the presence of one's attorney.
  6. To barrage with questions in order to get the person to admit something, usually used in the past tense "[You've been] lawyered."

Exempel

  • His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;.

Böjningsformer

Perfektparticiplawyered
Imperfektlawyered
Presensparticiplawyering
Plurallawyers
Tredje person singular indicativ presenslawyers

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