• (RP) IPA: /ˈlɔːjə(ɹ)/, /ˈlɔɪ.ə(ɹ)/
• (America, Northern and Western) IPA: /ˈlɔɪ.ɚ/
• (America, Southern) IPA: /ˈlɔ.jɚ/

lawyer (plural lawyers)

1. A professional person qualified (as by a law degree or bar exam) and authorized to practice law, i.e. represent parties in lawsuits or trials and give legal advice.
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:

     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; […].

   A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade. - aphorism often credited to Abraham Lincoln, but without attestation
2. (by extension) A legal layman who argues points of law.
3. (UK, colloquial) The burbot.
4. (UK, dialect) The stem of a bramble.

• advocate
• attorney
• counselor

• French: juriste, homme de loi, informally also avocat, avocate
• German: Rechtsanwalt, Anwalt, Rechtsanwältin (female), Anwältin (female)
• Italian: avvocato, legale
• Portuguese: advogado, advogada
• Russian: юри́ст
• Spanish: abogado, abogada, letrado (formal), notario

lawyer (lawyers, present participle lawyering; past and past participle lawyered)

1. (informal, intransitive) To practice law.
2. (intransitive) To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer.
3. (intransitive) To make legalistic arguments.
4. (informal, transitive) To barrage (a person) with questions in order to get them to admit something.

   You've been lawyered!

• lawyer up

1. A male given name