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

The family pursued legal action after finding that their pool was not built according to code, and put the settlement money toward founding a water safety nonprofit, The Zac Foundation. — Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 3 July 2026

Other signs of scam communications include requesting money or sensitive information, threatening legal action or arrest or pressuring the victim to take immediate action, a Microsoft spokesperson told the Herald. — Ella Moore july 2, Miami Herald, 2 July 2026

Under the order, X is subjected to costly independent audits, and the FTC has authority to demand documents to ensure compliance with data privacy laws without taking additional legal action. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 2 July 2026

This is not the first time the use of nonpublic price data in algorithmic software has been the target of legal action. — Audrey McGlinchy, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026

Rhymes for legal action

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