lawsuit

noun
lôʹs(j)o͞ot'

In civil law, a case where two or more people disagree and one or more of the parties take the case to a court for resolution.

Example

“The lawyer advised his client against filing a lawsuit as it would take a lot of time and money to resolve.”

Synonyms

suit
case
cause

Related words

counterlawsuit
lawsuitable
LOLsuit
prelawsuit
class action lawsuit

Example sentences

“That sounds like a lawsuit in the making.”
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This definition is adapted from “lawsuit” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.