Usually means: Senior lawyers recognized for excellence.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word Queen's Counsel:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. Queen's Counsel: Merriam-Webster
  2. Queen's Counsel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Queen's Counsel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Queen's Counsel, Queen's Counsel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Queen's Counsel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Queen's Counsel: Wordnik
  7. Queen's Counsel: Wiktionary
  8. Queen's counsel, queen's counsel, queens counsel: Dictionary.com
  9. Queen's Counsel, Queens Counsel, Queen's counsel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Queen's counsel: Rhymezone
  11. queens counsel: FreeDictionary.org
  12. queen's counsel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. Queen's Counsel: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Queen's Counsel)

noun:  (UK, Canada, New Zealand, occasionally Australia) An honorific status officially conferred on senior or meritorious barristers (and occasionally other kinds of lawyer) during the reign of a queen.
noun:  (UK, historical) A barrister or advocate appointed by the Crown during the reign of a queen.


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