solicitor:
(plural: ‘solicitors‘; for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
two solicitors fighting over a case
(in general) a person who advises/solicits;
a person who goes about places asking for help, volunteers, donations for some charity or to sell some products as a salesperson;
(in this context) a person who knows the law of the land and who can advise clients on the matters related to law and who can represent clients in courts of law;
a law officer of a town or city,
a solicitor (R) explaining legal points to her client
My cousin is a solicitor representing a multi-national business firm in the legal matters inland and abroad.
Though we all have the “No Solicitors” note on our front doors, we still have visits from every kind of solicitors… those paddlers that sell things going from house to house as a job, those that try to implore us with the religious knowledge and accuse us of being in sin for not listening to them and those volunteers for one charity or the other asking us to donate money or other things for the needy.
Some of the common law professionals we general hear in relation to law and court of law are: advocates, attorneys, bailiffs, barristers, court clerks, counsellors, lawyers, legal officers, solicitors, and magistrates & judges.
