lawsuit

See also: law suit

English

Etymology

law +‎ suit

Pronunciation

• enPR: lôʹso͞ot', IPA^(key): /ˈlɔˌs(j)ut/

Noun

lawsuit (plural lawsuits)

1. (law) 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.
   • 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

     It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.

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

Translations

case where a court is needed to resolve differences

• Afrikaans: saak (af)
• Arabic: دَعَوَى‎ f (daʿawā)
• Armenian: հայց (hy) (haycʿ)
• Bulgarian: съдебен процес m (sǎdeben proces)
• Catalan: plet (ca) m, litigi (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 訴訟, 诉讼 (sou³ zung⁶) (formal), 官司 (gun¹ si¹)

  Mandarin: 訴訟 (zh), 诉讼 (zh) (sùsòng) (formal), 官司 (zh) (guānsi) (informal)

• Czech: soudní proces m, proces (cs) m, soudní pře f
• Danish: retssag (da) c
• Dutch: rechtszaak (nl) f, zaak (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: proceso (eo), juĝafero
• Finnish: siviilikanne, kanne (fi), oikeusjuttu (fi)
• French: poursuite judiciaire (fr) f, procès (fr) m, poursuite (fr) f
• German: Gerichtsverfahren (de) n, Rechtsstreit (de) m, Prozess (de) m

  Alemannic German: Chlegti f

• Greek: αγωγή (el) f (agogí), μήνυση (el) f (mínysi)

• Hungarian: per (hu)
• Irish: agra dlí m, cúis dlí f, tagra m
• Italian: causa di tribunale f, causa (it)
• Japanese: 訴訟 (ja) (そしょう, soshō)
• Korean: 소송 (ko) (sosong)
• Latin: līs (la) f, dica (la) f
• Macedonian: парница f (parnica)
• Middle English: sute, questioun, askynge, accion, ple
• Portuguese: processo judicial m, processo (pt) m
• Romanian: caz judiciar n, proces (ro), cauză (ro) f
• Russian: иск (ru) m (isk), тя́жба (ru) f (tjážba), проце́сс (ru) m (procéss)
• Scottish Gaelic: cùis-lagha f
• Spanish: proceso judicial m, proceso (es) m, pleito (es) m, litigio (es) m, acción (es) f
• Tagalog: pleyto
• Telugu: వ్యాజ్యము (te) (vyājyamu)
• Turkish: dava (tr)
• Ugaritic: 𐎘𐎔𐎉 (ṯpṭ)
• Welsh: achos cyfreithiol m, achos cyfraith m, cyngaws m