next friend

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   (law) a person who acts on behalf of an infant or disabled person

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Questions about next friend

What does next friend mean?

next friend means "(law) a person who acts on behalf of an infant or disabled person".

Is next friend a common word?

next friend 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.