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means A country's second-ranking law officer, often the government's chief advocate before the highest courts.

from From Latin sollicitare ('to disturb, to petition, to move wholly'), which gave English 'solicit' — originally meaning to manage affairs or petition on another's behalf, not the pushy sales sense it later picked up. A 'solicitor' was someone who handled legal business for others; attach 'general' (as in 'attorney general'), from Latin generalis meaning 'pertaining to all, not specialized,' and you get an officer whose brief covers the whole realm of the state's legal affairs, deputy to the attorney general in most common-law systems.