attorney

noun

ə-ˈtər-nē How to pronounce attorney (audio)
Definition of attorneynext
1
as in deputy
a person who acts or does business for another talked to the count's attorney about buying land from his estate

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2
as in lawyer
a person whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients or to advise about legal rights and obligations finished law school and became an attorney

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Recent Examples of attorney The Don Curry Nature Trail — named for the Troop 326 scoutmaster and Fort Worth attorney — replaced an older trail that had been damaged by erosion. — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Aug. 2026 The smartest plaintiffs' attorneys are doing a good job shopping for judges sympathetic to their cases — and there are more than 30 at the moment with nearly 400 athletes involved. — ABC News, 30 Aug. 2026 Grossman, the attorney representing Ream and Morris in the two cases, agrees that there was massive tax evasion when the ban was passed. — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2026 That charge was dropped by the state attorney’s office on June 2, according to a filing reviewed by The Star. — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 30 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for attorney
Recent Examples of Synonyms for attorney
  1. deputy
  2. lawyer
  3. representative
  4. delegate
  5. agent
  6. manager
  7. minister
Noun
  • Prince was able to free the ATV and accelerated toward the deputy, striking him and knocking him to the ground.
    — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Hubble and Webb both have coronagraphs, but Roman’s experimental instrument is 100 to 1,000 times better than any built before, said Bertrand Mennesson, Roman deputy project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of deputy
Noun
  • His lawyer did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
    — John Annese, New York Daily News, 31 Aug. 2026
  • At the arraignment, Burke's lawyers withdrew in a shocking move, leaving him with a public defender.
    — Liza Esquibias, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of lawyer
Noun
  • Hutton said Calumet College regularly sends representatives to the school to monitor it, including its governance system and academic programs.
    — Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Fifty-one contestants — one representative from each of the 50 states, plus the District of Columbia — vied for the crown.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of representative
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  • This came before Nataraja played delegates the trailer of The Great British Bake Off‘s seventeenth season, which is due to launch in coming weeks.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2026
  • But the process falls apart when a company has to scale up, delegate, or is mostly remote.
    — K.H. Koehler, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of delegate
Noun
  • Rogue OpenAI agents’ unprecedented coordination during the Hugging Face attack significantly increases the risk of AI escaping human control, analysts said, days after investigators released a bombshell report into the incident.
    — Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • This was followed by the creation of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) on July 22 to handle espionage and resistance agents, and the first raids were already being carried out.
    — David Szondy August 30, New Atlas, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of agent
Noun
  • During a news conference Wednesday, general manager Brian Gutekunst was asked if the Packers would need to add another running back in the event Jacobs faced charges and got suspended.
    — Steve Megargee, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Brewers manager Pat Murphy had a discussion with third base umpire and crew chief Vic Carapazza in the third, when Misiorowski fell behind 2-0 on Francisco Alvarez following a walk to Morel.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of manager
Noun
  • The groundbreaking ceremony for the facility was held in the national capital on Tuesday attended by India’s civil aviation minister Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu.
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Flory Mapamboli, a Congolese lawmaker and former treasury adviser to the finance minister, said the conditions had already been met for some financing, but the money was still not being disbursed.
    — Ruben Nyanguila, semafor.com, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of minister

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