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.
私たちが家を買う前に、公証人がすべての書類への署名を目撃しなければなりませんでした。