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conveyancer en · NOUN

Etymology

From conveyance + -er.

Meanings

1. An attorney who passes transfer of immovable property from one party to another.
2. (UK, obsolete, slang) A pickpocket.
   • The wind-up is, that the father becomes bankrupt; the wife and daughters town-traders; the sons Greeks, Fancy-swells, Conveyancers (pickpockets), or Cracksmen (house breakers), and the New Drop is the last drop they ever take. 1822, A Morning in Cork-Street: or, Raising the wind, page 102:
   • Then will Lincoln's Inn change its sombre hue to Lincoln green. There will be no conveyancers, i. e. no thieves, no pickpockets. 1857, Mrs. Mathews (Anne Jackson), Tea-table Talk, Ennobled Actresses, and Other Miscellanies (page 209)

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Translations (2)

af transportbesorger (attorney) · de Notar (attorney)