public defender

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

(law) (in the US) a lawyer who is paid by the government to defend people in court if they cannot pay for a lawyer themselves

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public defenderEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus public defenderEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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public defender

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