defense lawyer

1. 1.

   the lawyer representing the defendant

   Synonymsdefense attorney

   Broaderlawyer

   law

Questions about defense lawyer

What does defense lawyer mean?

defense lawyer means "the lawyer representing the defendant".

What is another word for defense lawyer?

Close synonyms include defense attorney. 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 lawyer a common word?

defense lawyer 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.