counsel to the crown

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   a barrister selected to serve as counsel to the British ruler

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Questions about counsel to the crown

What does counsel to the crown mean?

counsel to the crown means "a barrister selected to serve as counsel to the British ruler".

Is counsel to the crown a common word?

counsel to the crown 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.