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# lawyer

«lawyer» in Mova's school dictionary: **to know the law, give advice about it and speak for…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a lawyer, lawyers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person whose job is to know the law, give advice about it and speak for people in court. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lawyer/#m1)

2) (informal) Someone who argues very cleverly (you sound like a lawyer). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lawyer/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In citizenship lessons and stories: a lawyer defends someone in court or helps people with wills, houses and contracts. Phrases: hire a lawyer, a good lawyer, a defence lawyer.

### examples

- My aunt is a lawyer who helps families. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lawyer/#x1)
- The lawyer spoke to the jury in court. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lawyer/#x2)
- You need a lawyer to help with the contract. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lawyer/#x3)
- He wants to be a lawyer when he grows up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lawyer/#x4)
- "You argue like a lawyer!" said Mum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lawyer/#x5)
- The lawyer read the rules very carefully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lawyer/#x6)
- I know that he never married, I believe he became a lawyer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lawyer/#x7)

### note

Countable. Said "LOY-er" (UK) or "LAW-yer" (US). Similar words: solicitor and barrister (UK, Ireland, Australia), attorney (USA), counsel (formal). A lawyer is not a judge — the judge runs the court and decides.

### In the corpora

- [The lawyers trusted the chatbot because it sounded so sure, and sounding sure is not proof.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/3/)
- [It was reported that lawyers in America handed a court past cases that a chatbot had invented, and that the judge fined them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/5/)
- [It was reported that lawyers in America handed a court cases a chatbot had invented and that the judge fined them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages/15/)
- [And, while he's at it, would he ask the lawyer to come too?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/47-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat/5/)
- [The Rat: «It's best to be on the safe side … I've never heard him ask for a lawyer!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/47-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat/31/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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