lawsuit

See also: law suit

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

law + suit

Pronunciation

• enPR: lôʹso͞ot', IPA^(key): /ˈlɔˌsut/

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

• Arabic: دَعَوَى f ‎(daʿawā)
• Armenian: հայց (hy) ‎(haycʿ)
• Catalan: plet (ca) m, litigi (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: soudní proces m
• Danish: retssag (da) c
• Dutch: rechtszaak (nl) f
• Esperanto: proceso (eo)
• Finnish: siviilikanne
• French: poursuite judiciaire (fr) f, procès (fr) m
• German: Gerichtsverfahren (de) n, Rechtsstreit (de) m, Prozess (de) m
• Greek: αγωγή (el) f ‎(agogí)
• Hungarian: per (hu)

• Irish: agra dlí m, cúis dlí f, tagra m
• Italian: causa di tribunale f
• Japanese: 訴訟 (ja) ‎(そしょう, soshō)
• Korean: 소송 (ko) ‎(sosong)
• Macedonian: парница f ‎(párnica)
• Portuguese: processo judicial 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, pleito m, litigio (es) m, acción (es) f
• Tagalog: pleyto
• Telugu: వ్యాజ్యము (te) ‎(vyājyamu)
• Turkish: dava (tr)
• Welsh: achos cyfreithiol m, achos cyfraith m