Usually means: Voluntary withdrawal of a lawsuit.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word nonsuit:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. nonsuit: Merriam-Webster
  2. nonsuit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nonsuit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nonsuit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nonsuit: Wordnik
  6. nonsuit: Wiktionary
  7. nonsuit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. nonsuit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. nonsuit: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. nonsuit: Dictionary.com
  11. Nonsuit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. nonsuit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Nonsuit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. nonsuit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. nonsuit: FreeDictionary.org
  16. nonsuit: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. nonsuit: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. nonsuit: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. nonsuit: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (nonsuit)

noun:  (law) A lawsuit that is dismissed as having been brought without cause, prior to an adjudication on the merits.
noun:  (law) A neglect or failure by the plaintiff to follow up his suit; a renunciation or withdrawal of the cause by the plaintiff.
verb:  (law, transitive) To dismiss (a suit or plaintiff) on the grounds of his or her lawsuit having been brought without cause, prior to an adjudication on the merits.

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