PRACTICE OF LAW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does practice of law mean? 

• PRACTICE OF LAW (noun)
  The noun PRACTICE OF LAW has 1 sense:

1. the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system

  Familiarity information: PRACTICE OF LAW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRACTICE OF LAW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

law; practice of law

Context example:

he studied law at Yale

Hypernyms ("practice of law" is a kind of...):

learned profession (one of the three professions traditionally believed to require advanced learning and high principles)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Domain member category:

deny; traverse (deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit)

set aside (annul (a legal decision))

disbar (remove from the bar; expel from the practice of law by official action)