Usually means: Legal action for resolving disputes.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word lawsuit:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. lawsuit: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lawsuit: Merriam-Webster
  3. lawsuit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lawsuit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lawsuit: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lawsuit: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lawsuit, lawsuit: Wordnik
  8. lawsuit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lawsuit: Wiktionary
  10. lawsuit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lawsuit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lawsuit: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. lawsuit: Dictionary.com
  14. lawsuit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Lawsuit (disambiguation), Lawsuit, The Lawsuit (opera): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Lawsuit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. lawsuit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. lawsuit: Rhymezone
  19. lawsuit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. lawsuit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. lawsuit: FreeDictionary.org
  22. lawsuit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. lawsuit: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. lawsuit: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. lawsuit: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. lawsuit: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. lawsuit: Legal dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lawsuit: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lawsuit: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lawsuit: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  (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.
verb:  To bring a lawsuit.

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