legal action

noun

: a process to have a court of law settle an argument

He plans on taking legal action against the company.

Examples of legal action in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Doing so is copyright infringement, and photography companies could choose to pursue legal action, hitting parents with fines that could run into hundreds of pounds. — Rebekah Evans, TheWeek, 8 Oct. 2026

Talarico’s Republican opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, has pursued legal action to exclude transgender athletes from women’s competition. — Jackson Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026

Governments from largely blue-leaning areas around the country have filed similar lawsuits seeking damages that could total billions of dollars, part of a wave of legal action worldwide seeking to leverage action through the courts. — Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026

Although Andrew receives a private allowance from King Charles III, a Buckingham Palace source told NBC News that the king was not funding his brother’s legal action. — Jean-Nicholas Fievet, NBC news, 5 Oct. 2026

Rhymes for legal action

• benefaction
• counteraction
• interaction
• liquefaction
• putrefaction
• rarefaction
• satisfaction
• stupefaction
• tumefaction
• abstraction
• attraction
• compaction