attorney-client privilege

1. 1.

   the right of a lawyer to refuse to divulge confidential information from his client

   Broaderprivilege

Questions about attorney-client privilege

What does attorney-client privilege mean?

attorney-client privilege means "the right of a lawyer to refuse to divulge confidential information from his client".

Is attorney-client privilege a common word?

attorney-client privilege is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.