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词汇 litigation
释义 litigation
noun[ U ]
 law specializeduk /ˌlɪt.ɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/ us /ˌlɪt̬.əˈɡeɪ.ʃən/
the process of taking a case to a court of law so that a judgment can be made: 诉讼,起诉
The company has consistently denied responsibility, but it agreed to the settlement to avoid the expense of lengthy litigation.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。
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litigation | American Dictionary


litigation
noun[ U ]
 lawus/ˌlɪt̬·ɪˈɡeɪ·ʃən/
the process of taking an argument between people or groups to a court of law:
Both sides agreed to the settlement to avoid the expense of litigation.

litigation | Business English


litigation
noun[ U ]
uk /ˌlɪtɪˈɡeɪʃən/ us /ˌlɪṱ-/
LAW
the process of causing a disagreement to be discussed in a court of law so that an official decision can be made about it:
The company has consistently denied responsibility, but it agreed to the settlement to avoid the expense of lengthy litigation.
You were told there might be grounds for litigation but the cost would be prohibitive considering the small amount involved.
in litigationThe company was in litigation for almost a year.

Examples of litigation


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

Collocations withlitigation


litigation

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amount of litigation
Of course, such a clause would have meant saddling the producer with such an amountoflitigation as to make his life hardly worth living.
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civil litigation
Yet the formal similarities between a war and a civillitigation could not conceal the deep moral rift between them.
complex litigation
We know that there has already been immensely complexlitigation over this matter.
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Hansard archive

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