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briefless
[ breef-lis ]
adjective
- having no brief.
- having no clients, as a lawyer.
briefless
/ ˈbriːflɪs /
adjective
- (said of a barrister) without clients
Other Words From
- briefless·ly adverb
- briefless·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of briefless1
Example Sentences
Gandhi's biographer and grandson, Rajmohan Gandhi, says the younger Gandhi - he arrived in South Africa as a 24-year-old briefless lawyer - was undoubtedly "at times ignorant and prejudiced about South Africa's blacks".
A briefless barrister was spending his time at the Courts when his clerk came to him with the news that a man was at his chambers with a brief.
"Better be a successful attorney, madam, than a briefless barrister," he observed, when she finished.
The broken merchant, the ambitious weaver, the briefless lawyer, the literary tailor are speedily sunk, in “we,” and “our sheet,” and “our columns,” and “our-self.”
In London you certainly were a briefless barrister.
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