how to pronounce lawyer

/ˈlɔːjɚ/

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lawyer is pronounced in two syllables

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ɔː

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An example use of lawyer in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… francis martell as a lawyer in the state …”

meaning of lawyer

A lawyer is a person who practices law.

lawyer frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word lawyer occurs in english on average 21.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics lawyer can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that lawyer can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) education, science, and technology;

3) people, society, and culture;