laywoman
/ley-woom-uhn/US // ˈleɪˌwʊm ən //UK // (ˈleɪwʊmən) //
俗人,俗家女,俗家妇女,外行
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n.名词 noun
- 1
plural lay·wom·en.
- : a woman who is not a member of the clergy.
- : a woman who is not a member of a given profession, as law or medicine.
Synonyms & Antonyms
as innonprofessional
Forms: laywomen
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Examples
One Italian paper even suggested that an unnamed laywoman had secretly ordered the butler to do it.
But when you speak of man acting as a unit he is a layman, but you never say a laywoman.
It was reasonable to suppose that a laywoman would not succeed where physicians had failed.
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