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scrivener

noun (scriveners); old use

«scrivener» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

Everyday

(old use) A scrivener was a person whose job was to write and copy documents for other people, a kind of clerk who wrote out legal papers. tree →

In the lessons

in old stories about law and wills, a writer of papers who works with the lawyer, called an attorney

Examples

The scrivener wrote the papers by hand. tree →
Neither the scrivener nor the lawyer came to the house. tree →
The old scrivener copied the will in neat letters. tree →

Note

nothing for maths

On Mova

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