(British, legal) One of the senior governing members of an Inn of Court.
(British, legal) One of the senior governing members of an Inn of Court.
ten of them Aldermen, or chief Benchers
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(UK, obsolete) An alderman of a corporation.
ten of them Aldermen, or chief Benchers
“I've now sent one to obscure back-bencher Sir Keir Starmer.”
(Canadian, law) A senior member of a law society in a Canadian province (except New Brunswick).
ten of them Aldermen, or chief Benchers