LITIGATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A legal proceeding in a court; a judicial contest to determine and enforce legal rights

Synonyms:

judicial proceeding; litigation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("litigation" is a kind of...):

legal proceeding; proceeding; proceedings ((law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "litigation"):

custody battle (litigation to settle custody of the children of a divorced couple)

vexatious litigation (litigation shown to have been instituted maliciously and without probable cause)

Derivation:

litigate (institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against)

litigate (engage in legal proceedings)

litigious (of or relating to litigation)