Definition of "lawyer" []

• One whose profession is to give legal advice and assistance to clients and represent them in court or in other legal matters. (noun)

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• ""Perhaps you would like to be a lawyer; very well, be a _lawyer_, but see to it that you don't _die a lawyer_, and nothing but a lawyer."
• "McConaughey is reportedly still playing the title lawyer, while Jones would have been the playboy."
• "Mortimer's personal training as a lawyer likely helped him create the title lawyer character of "Rumpole," which was adapted for short stories and the radio following its TV run."