legal action

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Noun legal action has 1 sense

legal action, action, action at law - a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong
--₁ is a kind of proceeding, legal proceeding, proceedings
--₁ has particulars:
antitrust case; civil action; counterclaim; custody case; lis pendens; prosecution, criminal prosecution; test case, test suit