Usually means: Instigator of quarrels for profit.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. barrator: Merriam-Webster
  2. barrator: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. barrator: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. barrator: Collins English Dictionary
  5. barrator: Vocabulary.com
  6. barrator: Wordnik
  7. barrator: Wiktionary
  8. barrator: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. barrator (barrater): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. barrator: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Barrator, barrator: Dictionary.com
  12. Barrator: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Barrator: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. barrator: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Barrator: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. barrator: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. barrator: FreeDictionary.org
  18. barrator: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. barrator: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. barrator: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Barrator: Legal dictionary
  5. barrator: Financial dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. barrator: A Word A Day

Definitions from Wiktionary (barrator)

noun:  One who is guilty of barratry, vexing others with frequent and often groundless lawsuits; a brangler and pettifogger.
noun:  One who abuses their office by dealing fraudulently.
noun:  (obsolete) One who buys or sells political or ecclesiastic offices.
noun:  A judge who accepts bribes.
noun:  (maritime, admiralty law) A ship's master who commits gross fraud or barratry.
noun:  (archaic) A quarrelsome person, one who fights, a bully.

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