adjective
- relating to or involving barratry; characterized by fraudulent or dishonest conduct by a ship's master or crew against the ship's owner or cargo
Usage: nautical; legal; archaic
Examples
- The barratrous captain deliberately damaged the ship to collect insurance money.
- Insurance policies typically exclude losses resulting from barratrous acts.
- The crew's barratrous behavior endangered both the vessel and its cargo.
- Maritime law has long prohibited barratrous conduct by ship officers.
- The investigation revealed barratrous intent in the vessel's mysterious sinking.