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lawyers

/law-yer, loi-er/US // ˈlɔ yər, ˈlɔɪ ər //UK // (ˈlɔːjə, ˈlɔɪə) //

律师,律师们,律师们的

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person whose profession is to represent clients in a court of law or to advise or act for clients in other legal matters.
    • : New Testament. an interpreter of the Mosaic Law. Luke 14:3.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to work as a lawyer; practice law.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to submit to a lawyer for examination, advice, clarification, etc.
  1. 1
    • : lawyer up, Informal. to hire a lawyer, especially when there is a perceived risk of being sued or charged with a crime: It’s time to lawyer up to protect yourself and your family.

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Examples

  • At least one other woman was deported after a guard assaulted her, detainees told lawyers.

  • Pop by their booth or sign up here to reserve some time with one of their industry-renowned startup lawyers.

  • Facebook is firing up its lawyers to try to block EU regulators from forcing it to suspend transatlantic data transfers in the wake of a landmark ruling by Europe’s top court this summer.

  • He paid $193 for the ticket, not counting $35 more in fees, according to emails exchanged between him and his lawyer at the time.

  • The investigation, which has been underway for more than a year, was revealed publicly in a recent Intuit filing in which the company’s lawyers appealed to the commission to limit the scope of its investigation.

  • He first rose to prominence as a lawyer in Queens, who settled a boiling racial dispute over public housing in Forest Hills.

  • Sabrine is a trained lawyer, likely a helpful quality when your task is to push politicians.

  • As the director of Freedom Now, I hold Intigam Aliyev in high esteem and have long respected his work as a human-rights lawyer.

  • His court-appointed lawyer was drinking a quart of liquor per day.

  • “At worst, Eric picked up a garbage can, was told by police to put it down, and did,” his lawyer, Martin Stoler, insisted.

  • The sharpened faculties have something of a lawyer's quickness in detecting a flaw in the indictment.

  • Sebastian Brandt died; counsellor of Strassburg, a lawyer, and author of a curious poem.

  • But a lawyer who needed the wherewithal finally condescended to risk the task, and into it he plunged.

  • "Fortunate," the Reverend repeated, thoughtfully, and looking up found the lawyer's eyes upon him.

  • If a client goes to a lawyer for advice the first thing the lawyer asks him to do is to make a clean breast of it.