friendly suit

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Definition of friendly suit in English English dictionary

: Where two subsidiaries of the same parent company accidentally sue each other, not realising that they have the same owner. An analogy is "friendly fire", where a person accidentally shoots someone on his or her own side

: Where a person sues another person (friend) purely to settle a point of (unsettled) law

Related Terms

friendly suits

plural form of friendly suit

Hyphenation

friend·ly suit

Turkish pronunciation

frendli sut

Pronunciation

/ˈfrendlē ˈso͞ot/ /ˈfrɛndliː ˈsuːt/