defense attorney

1. 1.

   the lawyer representing the defendant

   Synonymsdefense lawyer

   Broaderlawyer

   law

Questions about defense attorney

What does defense attorney mean?

defense attorney means "the lawyer representing the defendant".

What is another word for defense attorney?

Close synonyms include defense lawyer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is defense attorney a common word?

defense attorney 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.