lay witness

1. 1.

   any witness who does not testify as an expert witness

   Antonymsexpert witness

   Broaderwitness

Questions about lay witness

What does lay witness mean?

lay witness means "any witness who does not testify as an expert witness".

What is the opposite of lay witness?

The recorded antonyms are expert witness.

Is lay witness a common word?

lay witness 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.