next friend
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of next friend
before 900; Middle English; Old English
Example Sentences
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Why not invite your next friend who reaches out to walk along Alki or Seward Park instead?
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2017
Technically hired as counsel by Edelman who claimed legal status as "next friend" of the Rosenbergs, the two lawyers developed a special argument.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a rise which thus has more of Dale Carnegie than Horatio Alger in it, the next friend whom Ed Stettinius won and influenced was U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
They cannot sue in their own names, but by next friend.
From Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 by Bartlett, D. W.
He dareth not make raid on goods his next friend hath With open violence, nor loose his hand to steal, Save in community and for the common weal ’Twixt Saxon man and man.
From Satan Absolved by Blunt, Wilfred Scawen
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