BARRATRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does barratry mean? 

• BARRATRY (noun)
  The noun BARRATRY has 4 senses:

1. traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments

2. the crime of a judge whose judgment is influenced by bribery

3. (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

4. the offense of vexatiously persisting in inciting lawsuits and quarrels

  Familiarity information: BARRATRY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BARRATRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

barratry; simony

Hypernyms ("barratry" is a kind of...):

traffic (buying and selling; especially illicit trade)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The crime of a judge whose judgment is influenced by bribery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("barratry" is a kind of...):

bribery; graft (the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("barratry" is a kind of...):

fraud (intentional deception resulting in injury to another person)

Domain category:

admiralty law; marine law; maritime law (the branch of international law that deals with territorial and international waters or with shipping or with ocean fishery etc.)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The offense of vexatiously persisting in inciting lawsuits and quarrels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("barratry" is a kind of...):

crime; criminal offence; criminal offense; law-breaking ((criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)