Attorney vs Lawyers - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between attorney and lawyers

is that attorney is (us) a lawyer; one who advises or represents others in legal matters as a profession while lawyers is .

(lawyer).

(en noun)

(US) A lawyer; one who advises or represents others in legal matters as a profession.

An agent or representative authorized to act on someone else's behalf.

* In the "agent" sense, the word is now used to refer to nonlawyers usually only in fixed phrases such as attorney-in-fact or power of attorney.

* mouthpiece (slang) * advocate

() * attorney general * attorney-in-fact * attorney-at-law * patent attorney * power of attorney (POA) * trade mark attorney

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