柯林斯詞典public defender (public defenders) 1. N-COUNT A public defender is a lawyer who is employed by a city or county to represent people who are accused of crimes but cannot afford to pay for a lawyer themselves. 公設(shè)辯護律師[美國英語] 返回 public defender劍橋詞典in the US and some other countries , a lawyer paid for by the government to represent an accused person who cannot pay for a private lawyer (美國和其他國家)由政府支付費用,爲(wèi)請不起私人律師的被告辯護的律師 返回 public defender