notary
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/ˈnəʊtəri/
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/ˈnəʊtəri/
A person who has the legal power to watch people sign documents and make the documents official.
Before we could buy the house, a notary had to witness us signing all the papers.
在我们购买房屋之前,必须有一位公证人见证我们签署所有文件。