Robert_Chambers

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chambers (ˈtʃeɪmbəz) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
pl n
1.  a judge's room for hearing cases not taken in open court
2.  (in England) the set of rooms occupied by barristers where clients are interviewed (in London, mostly in the Inns of Court)
3.  archaic (Brit) a suite of rooms; apartments
4.  (in the US) the private office of a judge
5.  law in chambers
 a.  in the privacy of a judge's chambers
 b.  Former name for sense 5: in camera in a court not open to the public

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robert chambers

Scottish author, publisher, and, with his brother William (1800-83), founder of the firm of W. & R. Chambers, Ltd., and of Chambers's Encyclopaedia.

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