Lawyer vs Barrier - What's the difference?
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A professional person qualified (as by a law degree and/or bar exam) and authorized to practice law, i.e. conduct lawsuits and/or give legal advice.
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*:His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers ; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;.
By extension, a legal layman who argues points of law.
(informal) To practice law.
To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer.
To make legalistic arguments.
With "up", to acquire the services of a lawyer.
(colloquial, criminal law) With "up", to exercise the right to ask for the presence of one's attorney.
To barrage with questions in order to get the person to admit something, usually used in the past tense "[You've been] lawyered."
A structure that bars passage.
An obstacle or impediment.
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A boundary or limit.
As nouns the difference between lawyer and barrier
is that lawyer is a professional person qualified (as by a law degree and/or bar exam) and authorized to practice law, i.e. conduct lawsuits and/or give legal advice while barrier is a structure that bars passage.As a verb lawyer
is to practice law.lawyer
English
(wikipedia lawyer)Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* advocate * attorney * counselorDerived terms
* corporate lawyer * jailhouse lawyer * lawyering * lawyerlySee also
* solicitor * barristerVerb
(en verb)Anagrams
*References
barrier
English
(wikipedia barrier)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier . But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}