"accountant's lien" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "accountant's liens",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "accountant's lien (plural accountant's liens)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1994, Michael Gillooly, chapter 5, in Securities over Personalty, →ISBN, page 140:",
          "text": "A recent decision from New South Wales suggests, however, that in the absence of some contractual prohibition the benefit of a possessory lien (in this case, an accountant's lien over his client's papers) may be assigned to a third party, along with the debt.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The right of an accountant to retain a client's papers until the accountant's fees have been paid."
      ],
      "id": "en-accountant's_lien-en-noun-QBdgtKDO",
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        ],
        [
          "accountant",
          "accountant"
        ],
        [
          "client",
          "client"
        ],
        [
          "fee",
          "fee"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(law) The right of an accountant to retain a client's papers until the accountant's fees have been paid."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "accountant's lien"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "accountant's liens",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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      "expansion": "accountant's lien (plural accountant's liens)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        "English countable nouns",
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        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
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        "en:Law"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1994, Michael Gillooly, chapter 5, in Securities over Personalty, →ISBN, page 140:",
          "text": "A recent decision from New South Wales suggests, however, that in the absence of some contractual prohibition the benefit of a possessory lien (in this case, an accountant's lien over his client's papers) may be assigned to a third party, along with the debt.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The right of an accountant to retain a client's papers until the accountant's fees have been paid."
      ],
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        ],
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        ],
        [
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      ],
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        "(law) The right of an accountant to retain a client's papers until the accountant's fees have been paid."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "accountant's lien"
}