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PRACTICE OF LAW
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system
Example:
he studied law at Yale
Synonyms:
law; practice of law
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("practice of law" is a kind of...):
learned profession (one of the three professions traditionally believed to require advanced learning and high principles)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Domain member category:
deny; traverse (deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit)
set aside (annul (a legal decision))
disbar (remove from the bar; expel from the practice of law by official action)
