top lawyers

collocation in English

meaningsoftopandlawyer

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top
adjective[before noun]
uk
/tɒp/
us
/tɑːp/
at the highest part ...
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lawyer
noun[C]
uk
/ˈlɔɪ.ər/
us
/ˈlɔɪ.jɚ/
someone whose job is to give advice to people about the law and speak for them ...
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(Definition oftopandlawyerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It would enable them to become top lawyers operating in the same environment as hearing and non-disabled people.
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Of course, sometimes top lawyers are essential if the legal and evidential issues are to be properly explained and tested.
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Our legislation must be simplified so that firms do not spend so much of their time getting advice from top lawyers and accountants.
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They could afford the best—all the top lawyers, the posters, the public relations and the lobbyists.
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It is the fact that top lawyers in this country easily earn at least four times what top surgeons earn.
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That is guaranteed to cost a lot of money, as top lawyers argue that his rights have been infringed.
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We have top lawyers here.
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They planned to raise money for the families of the convicts to hire top lawyers for the appeal.
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