judicial separation

1. 1.

   a judicial decree regulating the rights and responsibilities of a married couple living apart

   Synonymslegal separation

   Broaderdecree

   law

Questions about judicial separation

What does judicial separation mean?

judicial separation means "a judicial decree regulating the rights and responsibilities of a married couple living apart".

What is another word for judicial separation?

Close synonyms include legal separation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is judicial separation a common word?

judicial separation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.