lawsuits
- 1Plural of lawsuit.
A wave of lawsuits followed the chemical spill upstream.
The firm dismissed the lawsuits as baseless attempts to extract a payout.
Note
A regular plural that takes a plural verb: the lawsuits were dismissed. Strictly, the word belongs to civil law, where it names a dispute between parties that one side takes to a court to resolve, so a criminal prosecution is not a lawsuit in this narrow sense. The singular can also serve as a verb meaning to bring such a case, though most writers simply say bring a lawsuit.
lawsuits is a form of lawsuit
lawsuit, noun: A civil case in which two or more parties disagree and one of them brings the matter before a court for resolution. Full entry
- Forms
- lawsuitlawsuits plural
- Spelling
- lawsuit → lawsuits: add -s
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