barristering
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Noun[edit]
barristering (uncountable)
- The activity of working as a barrister
- 2009 January 17, Helen T. Verongos, “John Mortimer, Barrister and Writer Who Created Rumpole, Dies at 85”, in New York Times:
- Somehow, despite the demands of his chosen careers — a “schizoid business of being a writer who had barristering as a day job,” he said — Mr. Mortimer also found time to pursue his lifelong interest in women, write for newspapers and keep up the garden nurtured by his father […] .