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NOTARY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does notary mean?
• NOTARY (noun)
The noun NOTARY has 1 sense:
1. someone legally empowered to witness signatures and certify a document's validity and to take depositions
Familiarity information: NOTARY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone legally empowered to witness signatures and certify a document's validity and to take depositions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
notary; notary public
Hypernyms ("notary" is a kind of...):
functionary; official (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Derivation:
notarize (authenticate as a notary)
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