What does paralegal mean?

paralegal means "a person with specialized training who assists lawyers".

How many syllables are in paralegal?

paralegal has 4 syllables: par-a-le-gal. The stress falls on "le". In IPA it is /ˌpɛɹəˈliɡəl/.

What is another word for paralegal?

Close synonyms include legal assistant. 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 paralegal a common word?

paralegal is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with paralegal?

3 words rhyme with paralegal. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.

paralegal — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
a person with specialized training who assists lawyers
Synonymslegal assistant
Broaderparaprofessional
law

Other forms of paralegal

plural: paralegals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

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