class-action suit

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

   Broaderlawsuit

   law

Questions about class-action suit

What does class-action suit mean?

class-action suit 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 suit?

Close synonyms include class action. 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 suit a common word?

class-action suit 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.