lodestar
Noun
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Noun
lodestar (plural lodestars)
- A star used as a navigation reference, particularly a pole star such as Polaris.
- A guiding tenet or principle.
- (law) A calculated amount to award as attorney's fees derived by multiplying the reasonable number of hours spent working on a case by the reasonable hourly billing rate.
- cynosure
- guiding star
- German: Leitstern
- Russian: путеводный
- German: Leitstern
- Russian: путеводный
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