NOTARY PUBLIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does notary public mean? 

• NOTARY PUBLIC (noun)
  The noun NOTARY PUBLIC has 1 sense:

1. someone legally empowered to witness signatures and certify a document's validity and to take depositions

  Familiarity information: NOTARY PUBLIC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOTARY PUBLIC (noun)

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 public" 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)