Attorney: Definition and part of speech

Attorney

  1. v. t. To perform by proxy; to employ as a proxy.
  2. n. A substitute; a proxy; an agent.
  3. n. One who is legally appointed by another to transact any business for him; an attorney in fact.
  4. n. A legal agent qualified to act for suitors and defendants in legal proceedings; an attorney at law.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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