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Senior Counsel

noun

Etymology

From senior + counsel.

  1. derived from cōnsilium
  2. derived from conseil
  3. inherited from counseil
  4. compounded as senior counsel — “senior + counsel”

Definitions

  1. An honorific status officially conferred on senior or meritorious barristers (and…

    An honorific status officially conferred on senior or meritorious barristers (and occasionally other kinds of lawyer).

    • The two Senior Counsels, who were very familiar with each other, were addressing one another as ‘Mister’, while I was addressing both by their Christian names.
    • He’s a deputy director of public prosecutions, one of only three Senior Counsel in his division, with an office on the sixth floor of the Innes Court building on Pritchard Street in downtown Johannesburg.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA