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mufti ['mʌftɪ] n
brit., austral. a civilian dress when worn by a member of the military, or casual dress when worn by a pupil of a school who normally would wear uniform (uncountable, Australia, Britain, New Zealand) Synonym: civvies: He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin. • The sailors in mufti returned with 140 quarts of Bar's Leak, half of which was poured into the condenser. wiktionary.org)
rel., islam a Muslim scholar and interpreter of shari'a law, who can deliver a fatwa (countable: Mujtahidd's online claims have prompted an aggressive backlash against social media from the Saudi religious establishment. The grand mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdul-Aziz al-Sheikh, said in January that Twitter was a platform for "promoting lies" and a "dangerous practice" that should be avoided by Muslims. Commentators have described the phenomenon as symbolic of the growing political debate about use of Twitter in Saudi Arabia. (The Guardian) wiktionary.org)
MUFTI ['mʌftɪ] abbr.
abbr., mil. Minimum Use of Force Tactical Intervention