What does advocacia in Portuguese mean?

What is the meaning of the word advocacia in Portuguese? The article explains the full meaning, pronunciation along with bilingual examples and instructions on how to use advocacia in Portuguese.

The word advocacia in Portuguese means legal profession, advocacia, advocatura, escritório de advocacia, escritório de advocacia, exercer a advocacia. To learn more, please see the details below.

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Meaning of the word advocacia

legal profession

substantivo feminino (jurídico (profissional, questões jurídicas)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

advocacia, advocatura

noun (legal profession) (profissão)

(substantivo feminino: Substantivo exclusivamente feminino. Ex. "atriz", "menina", etc. Aqui encaixam-se também os substantivos compostos compostos. Ex. "batata frita", "garrafa d'água", etc.)
Ela pratica advocacia e tem muitos clientes.
She practices law and has many clients.

escritório de advocacia

noun (company of lawyers)

Quando ela terminar a faculdade de direito, espera achar um emprego em um conceituado escritório de advocacia.
When she's finished law school she's hoping to find a job in a well-known law firm.

escritório de advocacia

noun (lawyer or lawyers' premises)

exercer a advocacia

(work as a lawyer)

(expressão verbal: Expressão usada como verbo. Ex. "se dar bem com"; "ter medo de". Também para elementos compostos mais longos, como expressões idiomáticas e ditados que começam com um verbo.)
Sean has been practising law for five years.

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