class action

1. 1.

   a lawsuit brought by a representative member of a large group of people on behalf of all members of the group

   Synonymsclass-action suit

   Broaderlawsuit

   law

Questions about class action

What does class action mean?

class action means "a lawsuit brought by a representative member of a large group of people on behalf of all members of the group".

What is another word for class action?

Close synonyms include class-action suit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is class action a common word?

class action is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.