stipendiary magistrate

1. 1.

   (United Kingdom) a paid magistrate (appointed by the Home Secretary) dealing with police cases

   Synonymsstipendiary

   Broadermagistrate

   United Kingdom

Questions about stipendiary magistrate

What does stipendiary magistrate mean?

stipendiary magistrate means "(United Kingdom) a paid magistrate (appointed by the Home Secretary) dealing with police cases".

What is another word for stipendiary magistrate?

Close synonyms include stipendiary. 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 stipendiary magistrate a common word?

stipendiary magistrate 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.