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LITIGATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A legal proceeding in a court; a judicial contest to determine and enforce legal rights
Synonyms:
judicial proceeding; litigation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("litigation" is a kind of...):
legal proceeding; proceeding; proceedings ((law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "litigation"):
custody battle (litigation to settle custody of the children of a divorced couple)
vexatious litigation (litigation shown to have been instituted maliciously and without probable cause)
Derivation:
litigate (institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against)
litigate (engage in legal proceedings)
litigious (of or relating to litigation)
