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Definition: Solicitor |
SolicitorNoun1. A petitioner who seeks contributions or trade. 2. A British lawyer who gives legal advice and prepares legal documents. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "solicitor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
Etymology: Solicitor \So*lic"it*or\, noun. [French expression soliciteur, from Latin expression solicitator.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Law | A person exercising, under the authority of the courts, a liberal profession and who is officially authorized to attest documents or actions so as to give them legal authenticity. Source: European Union. (references) |
Occupations | Sells merchandise or service, such as books, magazines, notions, brushes, and cosmetics, going from door to door without making appointments or following leads from management, other workers, or from listings in city and telephone directories: Displays sample products, explains desirable qualities of products, and leaves samples, or distributes advertising literature explaining service or products. Writes and submits orders to company. Delivers merchandise, collects money, and makes change. May contact individuals previously solicited in person, by telephone, or by mail to close sale. May travel from one area to another, or be assigned to specified territory. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Consignee | Functionary, placeman, curator; treasurer; factor, bailiff, clerk, secretary, attorney, advocate, solicitor, proctor, broker, underwriter, commission agent, auctioneer, one's man of business; factotum; (director); caretaker; dalal, dubash, garnishee, gomashta. |
Lawyer | Solicitor, proctor; notary, notary public; scrivener, cursitor; writer, writer to the signet; S.S.C.; limb of the law; pettifogger; vakil. |
Petitioner | Noun: petitioner, solicitor, applicant; suppliant, supplicant; suitor, candidate, claimant, postulant, aspirant, competitor, bidder; place hunter, pot hunter; prizer; seeker. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Solicitor |
| English words defined with "solicitor": law agent ♦ Parliamentary agent ♦ recorder ♦ solicitorship. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "solicitor": ad clerk, Attorney, Solicitor ♦ CLASSIFIED-AD CLERK I ♦ NEWGATE SOLICITOR. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | But in my case he fosters a ghastly illusion and I come to you as his friend rather than turning the matter over to my solicitor. (The Seven-Per-Cent Solution; writing credit: Arthur Conan Doyle; Nicholas Meyer) Certainly not: I am his solicitor. (The Wrong Box; writing credit: Larry Gelbart; Lloyd Osbourne) Oh, you've brought your solicitor with you, have you? (The Wrong Box; writing credit: Larry Gelbart; Lloyd Osbourne) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Family Solicitor (1961) | |
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W. S. Gilbert | And whether you're an honest man or whether you're a thief/Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief. |
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Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | The next morning a letter from my solicitor arrived, summoning me to town on important business. |
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Civil Liberties | Panama | The measure took effect on August 2, 2000. The Solicitor General's office indicated that these restrictions already existed in practice, but were codified by the new law. (references) |
Panama | A July 2000 law limits access by citizens to specific information about international agreement negotiations and national security, to administrative files within the Solicitor General's office, and to information about such matters as private citizens' health, political leanings, marital status, police or prison records, and bank accounts. (references) | |
Panama | In November 2000, the Legislative Assembly amended Article 70 of the Solicitor General's Organic Law that regulated press access to files to read that the confidential classification of a given piece of information must be established objectively and pursuant to conditions contained in the existing laws, to prevent public officials from denying the release of information under the excuse of limited access. (references) | |
Economic History | Costa Rica | The offices of the Comptroller General of the Republic, the Solicitor General, and the Ombudsman exercise oversight of the government. (references) |
Honduras | Other government institutions charged with combating corruption include the Comptroller General's Office, the Office of Administrative Probity, the Solicitor General's Office (Procurador General de la Republica - representing the government) and the Supreme Court's Office of Tribunals' Inspector General. (references) | |
Human Rights | Suriname | In 2000 the President appointed a new Solicitor General, and the Court of Justice confirmed him in September. (references) |
Political Economy | Sudan | The Human Rights Advisory Council, a government body whose rapporteur is the Solicitor General for Public Law, continued its role in addressing human rights problems within the Government. (references) |
Political Rights | Benin | The President of the Constitutional Court and the Solicitor General (which is not a cabinet position) are women. (references) |
Brunei | The first female High Court judge was appointed in 1999, since 2000 a woman has been director of the Anticorruption Bureau, and both the Solicitor General and the Assistant Solicitor General are women. (references) | |
Trade | Nigeria | The Power of Attorney should be designed to lapse and the appointed solicitor ceases to function upon the conclusion of all registration formalities. (references) |
Nigeria | The foreign investor may incorporate a Nigerian branch or subsidiary by giving a Power of Attorney to a qualified solicitor in Nigeria for this purpose. (references) | |
Nigeria | The incorporation documents in this instance would disclose that the solicitor is merely acting as an "agent" of a "principal" whose name(s) should also appear in the document. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Canada | The Interdepartmental Working Group on Trafficking in Women, cochaired by Citizenship and Immigration Canada and Status of Women Canada, also includes officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Human Resources Development Canada, Justice Canada, the RCMP, and the Solicitor General's office. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | This resulted in the establishment of the office of Solicitor of the Treasury, and the earliest measures were taken to give effect to the provisions of the law which authorized the appointment of that officer and defined his duties. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Solicitor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.28% of the time. "Solicitor" is used about 3,025 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 (singular) | 98.28% | 2,973 | 3,148 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.68% | 51 | 47,619 |
| Noun (common) | 0.03% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,025 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "solicitor": solicitor general. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "solicitor": solicitor-advocates, solicitor-client, solicitor-dishonesty, solicitor-executor, Solicitor-general. | |
Ending with "solicitor": non-solicitor. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "solicitor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | advokaat (advocate, barrister, counsel, intercessor, lawyer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mbledhës (collector, picker, redactor), kërkues klientash, kërkues (applicant, beseeching, exacting, exactor, invocatory, loud, particular, petitioner, postulant, prospector, searcher, suitor, tracer), avokati (advocate, bar, barrister, counsel, intercessor, lawyer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كاتب عدل, ملتمس (complainant, pleading), محامي مدينة أو ولاية, مجلس قضائي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | търговски агент, градски юристконсул, министерски юристконсул, пласьор (bagman, distributor, marketing agent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Catalan | advocat (advocate, barrister, counsel, intercessor, lawyer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 讨"意者. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | advokát (attorney, barrister, counsel, counsellor, counselor, lawyer), žadatel (applicant, claimant, petitioner, pretender). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sagfører (advocate, barrister, counsel, intercessor, lawyer), notar (notary), advokat (advocate, barrister, counsel, intercessor, lawyer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | pleitbezorger (advocate, barrister, counsel, intercessor, lawyer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | sakførari (advocate, barrister, counsel, intercessor, lawyer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | وکیل(حق.). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | asianajaja (attorney, barrister, lawyer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | notaire, avocat (barrister solicitor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | advokaat (advocate, barrister, counsel, intercessor, lawyer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Werber (adman, advertiser, advertising man, canvasser, press gang, recruiter, suitor), Rechtsanwalt (advocate, attorney, attorney at law, barrister, counsel, intercessor, lawyer, practitioner), Aufrufprogramm, Agent (agent, operative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συμβολαιογράφος (notary), νομικόσ σύμβουλοσ (legal adviser), νομικός σύμβουλος, νομικός αντιπρόσωπος, ζητών παραγγελίασ, ζητών ψήφουσ, εισαγγελεύσ (prosecutor), δικηγόροσ (attorney, counsel, counsellor, counselor, lawyer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hawaiian | avokati (advocate, barrister, counsel, intercessor, lawyer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מחזר (beau, going round, lover, paramour, suitor, wooer), פרקליט (advocate, attorney, barrister, counsel, judge advocate, lawyer), עורך "ין (advocate, attorney, barrister, counsellor, lawyer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ügyvéd (advocate, attorney, barrister, counsel, counsellor-at-law, counselor, counselor-at-law, intercessor, lawyer, leader, legal practitioner, pleader, shark), városi tiszti ügyész, jogtanácsos (counsel, fiscal, legal adviser), üzletszerző (drummer), ügynök (agent, bagman, broker, business agent, drummer, factor, goer between, mole, scrivener, spy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Icelandic | málfærslumaður (advocate, barrister, counsel, intercessor, lawyer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | avvocato (advocate, barrister, counsel, counsellor, intercessor, lawyer), notaio (notary, notary public). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 간청자. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | turneyr (attorney, writer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | advokat (advocate, attorney, barrister, counsel, intercessor, lawyer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | abogado (advocate, barrister, counsel, intercessor, lawyer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | olicitorsay solicitador (proctor), procurador encartado, procurador (agent, assignee, attorney, deputy, proctor, procurator, proxy), notário (notary, scrivener), funcionário ministerial que representa obrigatoriamente as partes perante os tribunais de recurso e de grande instância, avoué, aquele que solicita, advogado (advocate, attorney, barrister, bencher, counsel, counsellor, counselor, intercessor, lawyer, patron, pleader, templar). (various references) avocat (advocate, attorney, barrister, barristers, champion, counsel, counsellor at-law, lawyer, legal adviser, pleader, supporter). (various references) стряпчий (shyster), солиситор, ходатай (intercessor, pleader), адвокат (advocate, attorney, attorney at law, attorney-at-law, atty, atty attorney, barrister, councel, counsel, counsel for the defense, intercessor, jurist, lawyer, man of law, pleader, procurator, vakeel, vakil). (various references) zaštitnik (advocate, guardian, keeper, patron, protector), pravni zastupnik (attorney), posrednik (agent, daysman, go between, intercessor, intermediary, intermediate, intermediator, mediator, medium, middle man, middleman, moderator, pander, paraclete, umpire). (various references) abogado (advocate, attorney, barrister, counsel, counsellor, intercessor, lawyer, sergeant-at-law, Serjeant-at-law). (various references) afkati (advocate, barrister, counsel, intercessor, lawyer). (various references) advokat (advocate, attorney, barrister, counsel, counsellor, counselor, counselor-at-law, intercessor, lawyer, legal adviser, pleader). (various references) mánananggól (advocate, barrister, counsel, intercessor, lawyer). (various references) avukat (advocate, attorney, attorney at low, barrister, counsel, counsellor-at-law, counselor, counselor-at-law, intercessor, lawyer, mouthpiece, pleader, writer to the signet). (various references) юрисконсульт (counsels, jurisconsult), комівояжер (bagman, drummer, outrider, salesman, tout, traveller), прохач (applicant, intercessor, petitioner, prayer, suitor, suppliant, supplicant), повірений (attorney, mandatory, procurator, proxy). (various references) ummeli (advocate, barrister, counsel, intercessor, jurist, lawyer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | advocatus, causidicus, circiter. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "solicitor": solicitors, solicitorship, solicitorships. (additional references) | |
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"Solicitor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: solicitar, soliciter, solicitol, solicitorial, solicitory, soliciture, sonicator. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "solicitor" (pronounced suli"suter) |
| 4 | -s u t er | capacitor. |
| 3 | -u t er | accelerometer, altimeter, Amphitheater, anemometer, arbiter, auditor, barometer, catheter, comparator, competitor, conservator, conspirator, contributor, creditor, densitometer, depositor, diameter, distributor, editor, elater, estimator, executor, exhibitor, fluorometer, goniometer, hydrometer, hygrometer, inheritor, inhibitor, inquisitor, interferometer, interlocutor, interpreter, janitor, kilometer, magnetometer, marketer, micrometer, monitor, odometer, orator, orbiter, parameter, perimeter, photometer, picketer, polarimeter, predator, progenitor, proprietor, quieter, rioter, Sen, senator, sequitur, spectrometer, speedometer, telemarketer, tensiometer, Theater, theatre, thermometer, trumpeter, visitor. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-i-l-o-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: clitoris, coistril, colorist, cortisol. | |
-2 letters: colitis, lictors, octrois, oolitic, solicit, soritic. | |
-3 letters: cloots, colors, lictor, octroi, triols. | |
-4 letters: clits, cloot, clots, coils, coirs, color, colts, cools, coots, licit, lirot, locos, loots, loris, lotic, lotos, olios, riots, roils, roost, roots, rotis, rotls, rotos, scoot, sotol, stoic, stool, tirls, tiros, toils, tools, torcs, toric, torii, toros. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-i-l-o-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: coloristic, solicitors. | |
+2 letters: torticollis. | |
+3 letters: borosilicate, cardiologist, conciliators, consistorial, crocidolites, folkloristic, iconolatries, polyhistoric, trichologies, trichologist, victoriously. | |
+4 letters: borosilicates, cardiologists, chlorinations, colorimetries, colorizations, coreligionist, corporalities, creolizations, criminologist, cryobiologist, discoloration, enterocolitis, isoelectronic, nonhistorical, parasitologic, polycistronic, solicitorship, stromatolitic, torticollises, trichologists. | |
+5 letters: bacteriologies, bacteriologist, clitorectomies, coloristically, conspirational, conspiratorial, coreligionists, corporealities, criminologists, cryobiologists, discolorations, glorifications, hypocoristical, microbiologist, micropulsation, miscorrelation, oversolicitous, recompilations, reinoculations, sclerotization, solicitorships, soteriological, triamcinolones. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 6C 69 63 69 74 6F 72 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01101100 01101001 01100011 01101001 01110100 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o l i c i t o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 006C 0069 0063 0069 0074 006F 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)538178756975868184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Speeches 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Translations: Ancient 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Orthography 19. Bibliography |
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