Lawyer vs Lagger - 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."
One who installs lagging.
* 2001 , Geoffrey Tweedale, Philip Hansen, Magic Mineral to Killer Dust: Turner & Newall and the Asbestos Hazard
(video games, informal) A player who lags (has a poor or slow network connection).
(slang) A member of support staff responsible for contacting lawyers to check how a case is progressing.
As verbs the difference between lawyer and lagger
is that lawyer is (informal) to practice law while lagger is .As a noun lawyer
is a professional person qualified (as by a law degree and/or bar exam) and authorized to practice law, ie conduct lawsuits and/or give legal advice.lawyer
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(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
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lagger
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Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- In particular, Turner & Newall doggedly contested any claims from the largest high-risk group outside the scheduled factory areas — the laggers .