solicitors

noun

plural of solicitor
1
as in seducers
one that tries to get a person to give in to a desire money, that great solicitor that has often succeeded in persuading people to sell their very souls

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2
as in petitioners
one who asks earnestly for a favor or gift even a billionaire doesn't have the wherewithal to grant the wish of every deserving solicitor who comes his way

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Recent Examples of solicitors But the meatiest parts belong to their characters’ solicitors. — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2026 Brooks said her family has encountered plenty of door-to-door solicitors over the years, but never one knocking that late at night. — Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 5 Aug. 2026 In the early 1970s, in the midst of an oil crisis, my father ran a solicitors' firm. — Rupert Lee-Browne, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026 But the long-running saga involving the scion of a prominent and powerful family of local lawyers and solicitors took an unexpected turn this week when the South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned the murder convictions. — Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 15 May 2026 Three generations served as solicitors on the state’s 14th Circuit, while maintaining a lucrative private law practice in Hampton County. — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 23 Nov. 2025 That clarification will take the form of a deposition, which is expected to take place in front of British solicitors in December or early 2026. — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 23 Nov. 2025 Unauthorized vendors or solicitors of any kind. — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 23 Sep. 2025 Phishing texts claiming that tolls haven’t been paid or packages can’t be delivered, calls from solicitors promising to erase debt, malware emails offering winnings from a sweepstakes that no one ever entered. — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 16 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for solicitors
  1. baiters
  2. petitioners
  3. sirens
  4. beggars
  5. supplicants
Noun
  • Control of the criminal term was ceded to the race-baiters and radical left in an act of political mollification.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Rage baiters, in short, reflect the dark side of the attention economy.
    — Roger J. Kreuz, Fortune, 5 Dec. 2025
Definition of baiters
Noun
  • To qualify a referendum for the ballot, petitioners must collect a number of signatures equal to 10% of the votes cast in the last mayoral election.
    — Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Currently, the number petitioners would need to reach is 3,120.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of petitioners
Noun
  • Her friend’s cries mixed with the sound of police car sirens before officers arrived and escorted students and staff out the building.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Moments later, another NYPD vehicle approached their moped from the opposite direction on Northern Boulevard, its lights and sirens off, and, cut across the double yellow line to swerve into their path.
    — John Annese, New York Daily News, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of sirens
Noun
  • Dhaka’s rundown streets peppered with the homeless, vendors and child beggars.
    — Miriam Balanescu, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Robert Pattinson’s big outburst in Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey,’ has gone viral—here’s the ‘beggars’ meme, explained.
    — Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
Definition of beggars
Noun
  • Instead, Paulie’s trusted lieutenants move from person to person, talking with various would-be partners and supplicants, and then go back and whisper in Paulie’s ear.
    — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 26 May 2026
  • More than anything, in the halo headpieces that are her signature accessory, Mary recalls a medieval religious icon, the Holy Virgin as fictional diva, touching down on stages in major markets to be adored by seas of light-waving supplicants.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2026
Definition of supplicants

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