law
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- noun
- /lɔː/
- After years of studying law, he landed a job at a prestigious law firm.
- a law school
- practice law
- a law firm
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Watch on YouTubeThe first year I decided that law was not for me.
- The first year I decided that law was not for me.
- He's Nathan Wade's former law partner and friend.
- After Jane's bedtime, I returned to the law books with renewed will.
- Plus you learn the law better through application.
- If mom is a Stanford law, that means this is a smart mom.
Examples
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When I was in law school, we used to always talk about justice.
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Lawyers and judges are just not seeing what the law, properly understood, really requires.
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Plus you learn the law better through application.
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Maybe I should go to law school.
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I work for one of those law firms.
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Before we do the procedure, the law says we have to ask you a few questions.
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Her book Wives and Mothers in the Evolution of Law was a great success.
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Now let's consider what the law is as Donnelly presents it.
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He is a former professor of law at Georgetown.
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The EEOC bolstered each of its conclusions with significant case law and a well-supported analysis.
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Synonyms
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3.7
A business where lawyers give legal help to people and companies
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3.3
A group of people qualified and licensed to practice law in a country or area
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4.8
Work of giving legal advice and using law to argue cases
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4.9
Work a lawyer does to give advice, prepare documents, and represent people in court
Idioms
- Informal
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6.3
A situation where only the strongest people succeed without fair rules
Compounds
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The work police do to stop crime, find criminals, and make people obey the law
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A man in your family by marriage, for example your spouse's brother or your sister's husband
- Formal
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All people and organizations, including officials, must follow the same fair laws
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3.1
A group that makes sure people follow rules and stops crime and finds who did it
- Specialized
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A rule that describes how nature behaves, often shown with a formula
- Formal
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Temporary military rule over a country that replaces normal law during a war or crisis
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A system of rules for life and law based on the Qur'an and the Prophet Muhammad's teachings
- Specialized
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A system where judges use past court decisions and customs rather than written laws
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The rules a country or state has about when and how people can legally end a pregnancy
- Specialized
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3.8
Three basic rules that explain how pushes and pulls change the motion of objects
- Specialized
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A basic rule that explains how energy moves and changes in closed systems
- Formal
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A rule that the government must follow fair legal steps before taking someone's life, freedom, or property
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Work a lawyer does to give advice, prepare documents, and represent people in court
- Specialized
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Government rules that stop one company from controlling a market and protect competition
- Specialized
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5.0
Rules that control the behavior, trials, and punishments of people in the armed forces
- Specialized
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4.1
Law that deals with agreements and the duties people or businesses have to each other
- NSFW
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9.0
Laws in the United States that kept Black and white people apart, mainly in the South
- Specialized
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Energy naturally spreads from hot places to cold ones, increasing disorder
- Specialized
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3.9
A rule that shows how pushes and pulls change how things move, for example by starting or stopping
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The idea that after many tries results tend to match what is expected on average
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Religious laws given by God to the Israelites through Moses, including the Ten Commandments
- Formal
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A set of basic rules that explains how a country's government works and what rights people have
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A set of religious rules from Islam based on the Koran and Muhammad's teachings that guide how people live
- Specialized
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A system of rules used in ancient Rome that influenced many modern civil laws
- Specialized
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A rule people follow because of custom rather than being made by the government
- Specialized
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Three basic rules that explain how objects move and push each other in physics
- Formal
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A law that helps buyers get a refund or replacement for vehicles that keep breaking
- Specialized
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When one object pushes another, the other object pushes back equally
How Large
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Law comes from an old word meaning 'to lay', as in lay. The word also names the field where people learn about and work with those 'laid down' rules, so studying or practising law is training to handle official rules.