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Meaning of hackney writer | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A writer for hire.

obsolete

Examples

“[…] he learned, that Justice Gobble, whose father was a tailor, had for some time served as a journeyman hosier in London, where he had picked up some law terms, by conversing with hackney writers and attorneys’ clerks of the lowest order; […]”
“[…] and at this his first entrance on the world he found, as he himself said, no choice but to be a hackney writer or a hackney coachman.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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