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# attorney

«attorney» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person trusted to act for someone else in law or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (attorneys)

### meaning for a pupil

(old use) a person trusted to act for someone else in law or business; today we would say a lawyer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attorney/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales, the man who looks after another person's affairs and papers, often a lawyer or agent.

### examples

- The attorney came to the house with the papers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attorney/#x1)
- Neither the scrivener nor the attorney was sent for. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attorney/#x2)
- The attorney counted the gold for the family. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attorney/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «attorney» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attorney/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.