Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

friendly suit

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.37 in modern English

Syllables: friend-ly -suit
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The situation where a person sues another person (friend) purely to settle a point of (unsettled) law.

Example Sentences

"Federal courts cannot adjudicate a friendly suit, collusively arranged between non-adverse parties to obtain the judicial resolution of some constitutional issue."
"The summer after my freshman year in college, four years after the death of Miss Agnes, my father's bank filed a friendly suit against him to receive the court's interpretation of Miss Agnes's will."

Inflected Forms

friendly suits (plural)

Questions

What does friendly suit mean?: The situation where a person sues another person (friend) purely to settle a point of (unsettled) law.

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