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单词 litigation
释义
litigation
noun[U]
lawspecialized
uk
/ˌlɪt.ɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌlɪt̬.əˈɡeɪ.ʃən/
theprocessof taking acaseto acourtoflawso that ajudgmentcan be made:
诉讼，起诉
Thecompanyhasconsistentlydeniedresponsibility, but itagreedto thesettlementtoavoidtheexpenseoflengthylitigation.公司一直在推卸责任，但同意这一调解方案以避免漫长的诉讼所带来的花费。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Taking legal action
  • abatement order
  • accuse
  • ambulance-chasing
  • appear forsomeone
  • bring
  • cease
  • court martial
  • indictment
  • instruct
  • litigate
  • litigious
  • litigiousness
  • locus standi
  • make legal historyidiom
  • prosecutorial
  • reindict
  • reindictment
  • retry
  • specimen charge
  • summons
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(Definition oflitigationfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

litigation| American Dictionary

litigation
noun[U]
law
us
/ˌlɪt̬·ɪˈɡeɪ·ʃən/
theprocessof taking anargumentbetweenpeopleorgroupsto acourtoflaw:
Bothsidesagreedto thesettlementtoavoidtheexpenseof litigation.
(Definition oflitigationfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

litigation| Business English

litigation
noun[U]
uk
/ˌlɪtɪˈɡeɪʃən/us
/ˌlɪṱ-/
LAW
theprocessofcausingadisagreementto bediscussedin acourtoflawso that anofficialdecisioncan be made about it:
Thecompanyhasconsistentlydeniedresponsibility, but itagreedto thesettlementtoavoidtheexpenseoflengthylitigation.
You were told there might begroundsfor litigation but thecostwould beprohibitiveconsideringthesmallamountinvolved.
in litigationThecompanywas in litigation foralmostayear.
(Definition oflitigationfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflitigation

litigation
First, private parties often lack the individual incentive to initiatelitigationbefore national courts.
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If he is correct, then such cases should be classified with the cases typically associated with wrongful lifelitigation.
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To be more precise, in early pre-consumer societies where transactions were largely unwritten,litigationoccurred as a way of establishing the terms of transactions.
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This article outlines the main relevant court cases at present, and attempts to assess the significance of thislitigation.
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This article outlines the main relevant court cases and attempts to assess the significance of thislitigation.
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More significant risks, especially those that are likely to lead tolitigationwill require the production of statements by all individuals involved in the incident.
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As noted, it is impossible to take the disputes directly as administrativelitigationbecause the village collective is not part of the administrative apparatus.
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Although its title suggests a more ambitious research agenda, the main focus of the book is restricted to social rightslitigation.
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Moreover, individual or social pressures plus fears of litigations are factors that influence in a society that ignores the value of explicit policies.
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Yetlitigationfor him was often merely a way of conducting business by other means.
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If one department or county received between ten and twenty thousand petitions a year, it was proof that the right tolitigationwas guaranteed.
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A litigious society created an increased need forlitigationmasters, while local magistrates had to rely ever more heavily on private secretaries.
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Iflitigationover the initial terms of hire was infrequent, mariners often complained when masters or merchants changed a ship's destination midvoyage.
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Litigationwas indeed very costly for both plaintiffs and defendants, and the above expenses were only the tip of the iceberg.
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In other words,litigationhas a very uneven reach and does not always address some of the most serious corporate wrongdoings in society.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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Collocationswithlitigation

litigation

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amount of litigation
Of course, such a clause would have meant saddling the producer with such anamountoflitigationas to make his life hardly worth living.
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Hansard archive
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civil litigation
Yet the formal similarities between a war and acivillitigationcould not conceal the deep moral rift between them.
From theCambridge English Corpus
complex litigation
We know that there has already been immenselycomplexlitigationover this matter.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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