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Definitions: BARRATRY |
BARRATRYNoun1. The crime of a judge who is influenced by bribery in pronouncing judgment. 2. 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. 3. The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels. |
Date "BARRATRY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1881. (references) |
Etymology: Barratry \Bar"ra*try\, noun. [Compare to the French expression baraterie, Late Latin expression barataria. See Barrator, and compare to Bartery.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Economics | 1. In maritime law the intentional misconduct of the ship's master or crew; includes theft, intentional casting away of vessel, or breach of trust. 2. The offense of frequently stirring up quarrels and suits, either at law or otherwise. (references) |
Insurance | The illegal handling of a vessel by its crew or officers while at sea. The sinking of a ship for purposes of collecting insurance would be an example of barratry. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Barratry or Barretry. Qui fait barat, barat lui vient (French). With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. Barratry is false faith to one's employers. It is a sea term, and means the commission of a fraud on the owners or insurers of a ship by the captain or the crew. The fraud may consist of many phases, such as deserting the ship, sinking her, falsifying her cargo, etc. The French have other proverbs to the same effect: as, La tricherie revient presque toujours son matre. "He made a pit and ... is fallen into the ditch which he made. His mischief shall return upon his own head." (Psalm vii. 14, 15, 16.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Shipping | An act committed by the master or mariners of a vessel, for some unlawful or fraudulent purpose, contrary to their duty to the owners, whereby the latter sustain injury. It may include negligence, if so gross as to evidence fraud. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In criminal law, barratry is the act or practice of bringing repeated legal actions solely to harass. Usually, the actions brought lack merit. This action has been declared a crime in some jurisdictions.
See also champerty, SLAPP, vexatious litigation, abuse of process, malicious prosecution
In admiralty law, barratry is a fraudulent act committed by a master or crew of a vessel which damages the vessel or its cargo, including desertion, illegal scuttling, and theft of the ship or cargo.
A third meaning also exists: the buying and selling of positions of authority, especially those within the church.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Barratry."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Improbity | Perfidy; perfidiousness; Adjective: treachery, double dealing; unfairness; Adjective: knavery, roguery, rascality, foul play; jobbing, jobbery; graft, bribery; venality, nepotism; corruption, job, shuffle, fishy transaction; barratry, sharp practice, heads I win tails you lose; mouth honor; (flattery). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: BARRATRY |
| English words defined with "BARRATRY": Barrator, Barratrous ♦ Marine insurance. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
barratry | 10 |
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| Language | Translations for "BARRATRY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | sistemi i ryshfetit. (various references) | |
Arabic | شراء المناصب أو بيعها. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | квекуланство, недобросъвестност. (various references) | |
Danish | underslaeb. (various references) | |
Dutch | bedrog (fraud, swindle). (various references) | |
French | baraterie. (various references) | |
German | Baratterie, Betrügerei (cheating, deceit, deceiving, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, swindle, swindling, trickery, victimization). (various references) | |
Greek | ναυταπάτη. (various references) | |
Hungarian | hajórongálás. (various references) | |
Italian | baratteria. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arratrybay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | venalidade (venality), negligência (default, disregard, East, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, incurious, lapse, misfeasance, neglect, negligence, omissions excepted). (various references) | |
Russian | сутяжничество. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | podsticanje na svađe i parničenje. (various references) | |
Spanish | baratería. (various references) | |
Swedish | underslev (embezzlement, fraud). (various references) | |
Turkish | baratarya, kavgacılık (bellicosity, belligerence, belligerency, contentiousness, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness), kasıtlı yapılan zarar, kışkırtıcılık (demagogy, incendiarism), devlet dairelerinde mevki alma veya satma. (various references) | |
Ukranian | сутяжництво (chicane, chicanery, pettifoggery, pettifogging), кляузництво. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính hay sinh sự (contentiousness, quarrelsomeness), tính hay gây sự. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"BARRATRY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baritry, barrantry, Barrard, barraty, barritry. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "BARRATRY" (pronounced 'Bar"ra*try'): Acetimetry, Acidimetry, Acoumetry, Actino-chemistry, Actinometry, Aerometry, Alchemistry, Alcoholometry, Alcoometry, Alkalimetry, Altimetry, Ancestry, Anemometry, Angelolatry, Anthropolatry, Anthropometry, Apomecometry, Areometry, Astrolatry, Astrometry, Astrophotometry, Asymmetry, Atmiatry, Attry, Autolatry, Avowtry, Baculometry, Ballatry, Baptisteries, Baptistery, Baptistry, Barometry, Bathymetry, Bibliolatry, Bijoutry, Biochemistry, Biometry, Calorimetry, Cardiometry, Carpentry, Centry, Cephalometry, Chlorimetry, Chlorometry, Choltry, Chorometry, Choultry, Chronometry, Clinometry, Colorimetry, Conchometry, Conchyliometry, Coplatry, Cosmolatry, Cosmometry, Coventry, Craniometry, Crystallometry, Cyclometry, Dare-deviltry, Demonolatry, Deviltry, Dioptry, Dissymmetry, Dosimetry, Dynamometry, Echometry, Electro-chemistry, Elextrometry, Entry, Epipedometry, Eudiometry, Feltry, Galvanometry, gantry, Gasometry, Gentry, geochemistry, Geolatry, Goniometry, gyneolatry, Haemadrometry, Haemadromometry, Haematachometry, Haemotachometry, hagiolatry, heliolatry, Heliometry, hierolatry, Horometry, hydrometry, Hygrometry, hypsometry, Iatrochemistry, ichthyolatry, iconolatry, idiolatry, Idolatry, Indigometry, Industry, infantry, Isoperimetry, Kanttry, Litholatry, Longimetry, lordolatry, Macro-chemistry, Mariolatry, Maryolatry, -metry, micro-chemistry, Micrometry, ministry, Misentry, monolatry, Necrolatry, Nitry, Odometry, Ophiolatry, Optometry, Orthometry, Osmometry, Outsentry, Ozonometry, Palmistry, paltry, Pantometry, Pantry, Pastry, Pelvimetry, Perimetry, Photochemistry, Photogrammetry, Photometry, Phratry, Physiolatry, Phytochemistry, Planimetry, Planometry, Pluviometry, Pneumatometry, Pneumometry, Poetastry, Polarimetry, Polygonometry, Postentry, Poultry, Prelatry, Pseudo-symmetry, Psychometry, Psychrometry, Pulmometry, Pyrolatry, Pyrometry, Radiometry, reentry, registry, retry, Revestry, Rheometry, Saccharimetry, Salimetry, Salomtry, Sawtry, Seismometry, Sextry, Skimitry, spectrometry, Spectrophotometry, Spinstry, Spirometry, Stereo-chemistry, Stereometry, Stichometry, stoichiometry, Stratarithmetry, sultry, sweltry, symmetry, Synastry, Tachometry, Tachymetry, thaumatolatry, Thermochemistry, thermometry, Tonometry, Underministry, Uranometry, Urinometry, Volumenometry, Wintry, Zoochemistry, Zoolatry. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-r-r-r-t-y" | |
-2 letters: baryta. | |
-3 letters: array, rabat, tarry. | |
-4 letters: arty, brat, bray, brrr, raya, tray. | |
-5 letters: aba, aby, arb, art, baa, bar, bat, bay, bra, brr, rat, ray, rya, tab, tar, try, yar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-r-r-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: arbitrary. | |
+3 letters: arbitrarily. | |
+4 letters: nonarbitrary. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 41 52 52 41 54 52 59 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- .-. .-. .- - .-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000001 01010010 01010010 01000001 01010100 01010010 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B A R R A T R Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0041 0052 0052 0041 0054 0052 0059 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3635525235545259 |
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