Usually means: Legal reason for a lawsuit.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word cause of action:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. cause of action: Merriam-Webster
  2. cause of action: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cause of action: Vocabulary.com
  4. cause of action: Wiktionary
  5. cause of action: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  6. cause of action: Dictionary.com
  7. Cause of action: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. cause of action: FreeDictionary.org
  9. cause of action: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. cause of action: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. cause of action: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. cause of action: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. cause of action: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Cause of Action: DivorceNet.com (Annotated Divorce Law Dictionary)
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  9. cause of action: Legal dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cause of action: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (cause of action)

noun:  (law) A condition under which one party would be entitled to sue another.
noun:  (law) A civil lawsuit.

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