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

Lawyers told me at the time that legal action almost always ended with the government getting the land anyway. —Zolan Kanno-Youngs, New York Times, 21 May 2025

The legal action stems from a fatal car crash that left the woman severely injured and in a coma, and her son dead. —Jennifer Rodriguez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 May 2025

Trace posted a follow-up message after his first letter, claiming his adoptive father was threatening him with legal action over the initial letter. —Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 11 May 2025

In February, the owners of several Florida dealerships, including Audi Lakeland, Lakeland Volkswagen, Leesburg Volkswagen, launched legal action against Scout in Miami-Dade Circuit Court. —Jeffrey Schweers, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 May 2025

Rhymes for legal action

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