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de|law|yer
de|law|yer «dee L yuhr», transitive verb.
to remove the need for legal action or the use of lawyers in (some settlement or legal process): »

In other areas, procedural reforms such as no-fault insurance offer ways to “delawyer” particular problems (Thomas Ehrlich). Several states have enthusiastically embraced “delawyering” proposals (David C. Beckwith).


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