solicitor general

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   a law officer appointed to assist an attorney general

   Broaderlawman

Questions about solicitor general

What does solicitor general mean?

solicitor general means "a law officer appointed to assist an attorney general".

Is solicitor general a common word?

solicitor general 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.