out-of-court settlement

1. 1.

   resolution of a dispute prior to the rendering of a final decision by the trial court

   Broadersettlement

Questions about out-of-court settlement

What does out-of-court settlement mean?

out-of-court settlement means "resolution of a dispute prior to the rendering of a final decision by the trial court".

Is out-of-court settlement a common word?

out-of-court settlement 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.