An Indian and Pakistani term for a lawyer, legal agent, or official representative — someone authorized to act on another's behalf in legal or diplomatic matters. A vakeel in the legal sense is an advocate or attorney who pleads cases in court. In a broader historical sense, a vakeel could be a diplomat or ambassador representing a ruler's interests. Still in active use across South Asia, particularly in legal contexts in India and Pakistan.
She hired a vakeel in Lahore to handle the property dispute before it went to court.
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(India, Pakistan) An ambassador.
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(India, Pakistan) An attorney, lawyer or agent.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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