词汇 | ambulance-chaser |
释义 | ambulance chaser noun[ C ] informaldisapprovinguk /ˈæm.bjʊ.ləns ˌtʃeɪ.sər/ us /ˈæm.bjʊ.ləns ˌtʃeɪ.sɚ/ a lawyer who tries to get work by persuading someone who has been in an accident to claim money from the person or company responsible for the accident: (怂恿受伤者起诉的)冷血讼棍律师;(乘人之危获取稿源的)冷血记者 An ambulance chaser contacted her the day she was injured and persuaded her to sue the city council for negligence.她受伤的当天,就有一个冷血讼棍律师联系到她,劝她起诉市政务委员会失职。 News reporting & the press breaking news bury the ledeidiom citizen journalism citizen journalist correspondent dispatch hot off the pressidiom investigative journalism investigative journalist journalism journalist journalistic photojournalism photojournalist press baron press conference scoop spoiler the Associated Press the Press Association Related wordambulance-chasing Examples of ambulance chaserambulance chaser Frank also goes too far when he even insults the patient's granddaughter by calling her an ambulancechaser. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Those required that for the first time the addresses of the parties should be placed on the public register, which could only assist the work of ambulance chasers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Even more ominously, when she awakes from surgery a lawyer - ' what they call an ' 'ambulancechaser ' ' ' - is there to offer his services (p. 7). An ambulancechaser, who was not a solicitor, passed the action on to some firm. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One critic described him as an identity politics ambulancechaser and another said he represented a right-wing publicity mill. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It maintained that such access would assist the activities of ambulance chasers that made unsolicited approaches to parties. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are often referred to as ambulance chasers, but they chase other forms of business, too. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Concern has been expressed about the number of so-called ambulance chasers who have been touting for business in ways that have received unfavourable publicity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Does he not agree that it would be very undesirable for us to return to the days when certain lawyers were regarded with utter contempt and called ambulance chasers? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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