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Definition: ATTORNEYS |
ATTORNEYSPlural1. Of Attorney |
Date "ATTORNEYS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references) |
Synonym: ATTORNEYSSynonym: Lawyers. (additional references) |
Crosswords: ATTORNEYS |
| English words defined with "ATTORNEYS": Attorneyism ♦ Inns of chancery ♦ Side-bar rule. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ATTORNEYS": Accomplice, attorney at law, Attorney, Solicitor ♦ CORRECTIONAL-TREATMENT SPECIALIST, COURT ADMINISTRATOR, COURT CLERK, court officer, customs examiner, CUSTOMS IMPORT SPECIALIST ♦ director of major or capital gifts, DIRECTOR, FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY DIVISION, DIRECTOR, FUNDS DEVELOPMENT ♦ PROCESS SERVER ♦ TARIFF PUBLISHING AGENT, TITLE ATTORNEY, title examiner ♦ user interface copyright ♦ World Trade Clubs. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ATTORNEYS": Attorney. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | May they rot in hell, along with their attorneys. (Law & Order; writing credit: Peter Yeldham) In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. (Law & Order; writing credit: Peter Yeldham) | |
Lyrics | Fans turn on you, attorneys all wanna turn at you (Sing For The Moment; performing artist: EMINEM) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | W.D. Lyons, NAACP defendant, handcuffed and standing next to six arresting officers and attorneys, Hugo, Okla.] / College Studio. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 29 - Negro coed leaves court--Autherine Lucy, left foreground, leaves Federal Court here today with her attorneys, Thurgood Marshall, center and Arthur Shores, after court recessed / Wide World photos. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Television cameras filming Billie Sol Estes (right) conferring with his attorneys, John Dennison (left) and John Cofer, during his trial for swindling, Tyler, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He was violent and flowery, like most prosecuting attorneys. |
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Business | The services of experienced attorneys are necessary to both parties. (references) | |
Preparation of the application may be done by foreign attorneys or the Chinese agent. (references) | ||
Only attorneys licensed in China may appear in court and advise on questions of Chinese law. (references) | ||
Children | Brazil | Charges were brought against the owner of a bar, a local judge, a high-ranking police official, and two attorneys. (references) |
Guatemala | On July 1, police rescued four infants they claimed were being cared for under orders from attorneys who sell children for adoption. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Brazil | In March, President Cardoso signed a decree prohibiting government attorneys from commenting on ongoing cases; however, in May he rescinded the decree following popular criticism. (references) |
Economic History | Nepal | The U.S. Embassy can provide a list of local attorneys. (references) |
Jamaica | The Embassy can also provide a list of local attorneys. (references) | |
New Zealand | The Patent Office will supply a list of attorneys upon request. (references) | |
Human Rights | Kenya | Very few can afford attorneys. (references) |
Bahrain | Access to attorneys is restricted. (references) | |
Georgia | The quality of attorneys varies dramatically. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Guatemala | The Public Defender's Office began hiring attorneys fluent in indigenous languages and assigning them to areas where they could serve as translators in addition to defending their clients. (references) |
Minorities | Brazil | It also demonstrates a lack of knowledge of the existing antiracism statutes on the part of lawmakers, public attorneys, judges, and lawyers. (references) |
Political Economy | TAIWAN | Qualified foreign attorneys may, as consultants to Taiwan law firms, provide legal advice to their employers only. (references) |
Trade | Nigeria | The law permits and acknowledges the roles of attorneys, etc. (references) |
Women | Tunisia | Several NGO's focus, in whole or in part, on women's advocacy, or research women's issues, and a number of attorneys represent women in domestic cases. (references) |
Egypt | At year's end, the Court of Cassation still was examining the cases of two attorneys, Fatma Lashin and Amany Talaat, who are challenging the Government's refusal to appoint them as public prosecutors. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Peru | Management negotiating teams may not exceed the size of union teams, and both sides are permitted to have attorneys and technical experts present as advisers. (references) |
Austria | In October 2000, an agreement was signed between the Government, attorneys representing former forced and slave laborers, and representatives of foreign governments, providing compensation for former forced and slave laborers. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Alexander Benedetto | There you have privy counsel attorneys. They have a different legal system where they have barristers and solicitors. But the barrister will be presenting the case before the House of Lords of five-judge panel. |
Nancy Grace | I say that the defense attorneys very often choose to believe the clients. So I certainly didn't want to do that. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Herbert C. Hoover | 1929-1933 | We are fortunate in the ability and integrity of our Federal judges and attorneys. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | The dockets are full of cases because we don't have assistant district attorneys to go before the Federal judge and handle them. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | To speed Federal justice, I propose an increase this year in the United States attorneys prosecuting Federal crimes and the reinforcement of the number of United States marshals. |
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| "ATTORNEYS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ATTORNEYS" is used about 42 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 42 | 52,864 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ATTORNEYS": attorneys-general. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
arava attorneys.com | 3 |
attorneys.com national zerit | 2 |
arava attorneys.com national | 2 |
attorneys.com national silicosis | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ATTORNEYS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 律师 (Attorney, Barrister, Lawyer). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Rechtsanwälte (barristers), Anwälte (lawyers). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 검사 (Attorney, checking, Examination, inspection, lookup, SCAN). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | attorneysay advokater (advocates), ombud (agent, attorney, delegate, proxy, representative). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ATTORNEYS": attorneyship, attorneyships. (additional references) | |
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"ATTORNEYS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atcherleys, atorney, atorny, atterney, attoiney, attonery, attornay, attornies, attorny, attouney, attourney, attroney, atturney. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ATTORNEYS" (pronounced uter"nēz) |
| 4 | -er" n ē z | journeys. |
| 3 | -n ē z | aborigines, accompanies, afghanis, agonies, balconies, bikinis, brownies, bunnies, ceremonies, chimneys, colonies, companies, crannies, cronies, destinies, felonies, guineas, harmonies, Honeys, ironies, kidneys, litanies, martinis, minis, moneys, monies, mutinies, nannies, pennies, peonies, ponies, symphonies, testimonies, tourneys, tyrannies. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-n-o-r-s-t-t-y" | |
-1 letter: attorney. | |
-2 letters: aroynts, atoners, attorns, natters, notates, rattens, rattons, rotates, senator, stentor, toaster, treason, tyrants, yatters. | |
-3 letters: antres, aroynt, arseno, astern, astony, atoner, atones, attorn, estray, natter, nestor, notary, notate, noters, oaters, orates, ornate, ottars, otters, oyster, ratten, ratton, rayons, reason, rotate, rotten, rottes, senary, senora, sentry, snotty, stater, stator, stayer, sterna, stoner. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-n-o-r-s-t-t-y" | |
+1 letter: stationery. | |
+2 letters: countryseat. | |
+3 letters: attorneyship, countryseats, stonyhearted, tryptophanes. | |
+4 letters: attorneyships, constellatory, contrastively, geostationary, investigatory, northeasterly, remonstrantly, tetradynamous. | |
+5 letters: hypnotherapist, phytoplankters, seronegativity, symmetrization. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Spoken 10. Quotations: Speeches 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Bibliography |
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