Definition of "briefless" [brief•less]

• Lacking briefs (clients) (adjective)

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• "But a short time since he was hungry and briefless in some garret of the"
• "Shirker, who has about as much warmth as an eel, made up to Polly years and years ago, and was no bad match for a briefless barrister, as he was then."
• "Rumpole has been reduced to going to some free law advice place in the East End where he went as a young and briefless barrister."