单词 | public defender |
释义 | public defendernouna lawyer appointed or elected by a city or county as a full-time, official defender to represent indigents in criminal cases at public expense. Compare assigned counsel. Origin of public defenderFirst recorded in 1915–20 Words nearby public defenderpublic charge, public company, public convenience, public corporation, public debt, public defender, public domain, public enemy, Public Enemy Number One, public enterprise, public expenditure Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for public defenderpublic defender noun(in the US) a lawyer engaged at public expense to represent indigent defendants Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Cultural definitions for public defenderpublic defender An attorney who is appointed and paid by a court to defend poor persons who cannot afford a lawyer. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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