Dictionary Entry
barratry
barratry is a 8-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 13 · 7 senses
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- 1noun
The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels.
- 2noun
A fraudulent breach of duty or willful act of known illegality on the part of a master of a ship, in his character of master, or of the mariners, to the injury of the owner of the ship or cargo, and without his consent. It includes every breach of trust committed with dishonest purpose, as by running away with the ship, sinking or deserting her, etc., or by embezzling the cargo.
- 3noun
The crime of a judge who is influenced by bribery in pronouncing judgment.
- 4noun
the offense of vexatiously persisting in inciting lawsuits and quarrels
- 5noun
(maritime law) a fraudulent breach of duty by the master of a ship that injures the owner of the ship or its cargo; includes every breach of trust such as stealing or sinking or deserting the ship or embezzling the cargo
- 6noun
the crime of a judge whose judgment is influenced by bribery
- 7noun
traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments
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