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Stuart vs Lawyer - What's the difference?

stuart | lawyer |

As an adjective stuart

is crooked.

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.

As a verb lawyer is

(informal) to practice law.

stuart

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • , a variant of Stewart.
  • A royal house in Scotland and England up to the early 18th century.
  • transferred from the surname.
  • Derived terms

    * house of Stuart ----

    lawyer

    English

    (wikipedia lawyer)

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • Synonyms

    * advocate * attorney * counselor

    Derived terms

    * corporate lawyer * jailhouse lawyer * lawyering * lawyerly

    See also

    * solicitor * barrister

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (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."
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