Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A lawyer who is authorized to appear and present cases at any court in a jurisdiction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A counselor or an advocate learned in the law, admitted to plead at the bar in protection and defense of clients: called in full a barrister at law.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun engraving Counselor at law; a counsel admitted to plead at the bar, and undertake the public trial of causes, as distinguished from an attorney or solicitor. See
attorney .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun law, chiefly UK, New Zealand A
lawyer with the right to speak andargue as anadvocate in higherlawcourts .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a British or Canadian lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law on behalf of either the defense or prosecution
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I'm writing from Nigeria -- not with an email that uses the word "barrister" and attempts to scam you out of thousands of your hard-earned dollars -- but rather as a visitor to this country that regularly turns up as a punch line on late night TV.
Tamar Abrams: Abuja, Nigeria: Happy to Leave Tamar Abrams 2011
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He is what they call a barrister, with nothing to do.
Our Mutual Friend 2004
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He is what they call a barrister, with nothing to do.
Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1841
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Although the word barrister is not used in the USA, all lawyers in America have to be members of the “bar” and to register with the Bar Association in order to practice.
Attorney, Lawyer, Barrister, Solicitor and Notary (English) Rene Meertens 2010
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Although the word barrister is not used in the USA, all lawyers in America have to be members of the “bar” and to register with the Bar Association in order to practice.
Archive 2010-03-01 Rene Meertens 2010
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In Pickwick Papers we read about a certain barrister who was described as a promising young man of about forty.
The Newsprint Riddle 1935
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Lord Mansfield whenever a barrister pronounced a Latin word with a false quantity.
A Book About Lawyers John Cordy Jeaffreson 1866
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So likening you to one of them - as opposed to a "barrister" - could presumably be argued to be incapable of carrying a defamatory meaning.
My First 'Hate' Email: A 'Chiropractic Doctor' Writes Jack of Kent 2009
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He quoted Lord Denning that in the dictionary for example the word barrister comes directly after bankrupt and just before bastard.
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I heard of one case here in England (unreported, the barrister was a friend-of-a-friend) where a lorry driver who went through a red light and hit a cyclist was held not to be liable because the lorry driver's barrister persuaded the judge that riding a bicycle through Manchester city centre was so recklessly foolhardy that the cyclist was "volens" as to the risk ...
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