Usually means: Illegal incitement of litigation, profit.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word barratry:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. barratry: Merriam-Webster
  2. barratry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. barratry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. barratry: Collins English Dictionary
  5. barratry: Vocabulary.com
  6. Barratry, barratry: Wordnik
  7. barratry: Wiktionary
  8. barratry: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. barratry: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. barratry: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. barratry: Dictionary.com
  12. Barratry (admiralty law), Barratry (common law), Barratry: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Barratry: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. barratry: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Barratry: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. barratry: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. barratry: FreeDictionary.org
  18. barratry: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. barratry: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. barratry: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. barratry: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. barratry: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. barratry: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  9. Barratry: Investopedia
  10. barratry: Legal dictionary
  11. Barratry: Financial dictionary
  12. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. barratry: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. barratry: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. barratry: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (barratry)

noun:  The act of persistently instigating lawsuits, often groundless ones.
noun:  The sale or purchase of religious or political positions of power.
noun:  (admiralty law) Unlawful or fraudulent acts by the crew of a vessel, harming the vessel's owner.

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