legal action

Questions about legal action

What does legal action mean?

legal action means "a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong".

What is another word for legal action?

Close synonyms include action, action at law. 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 legal action a common word?

legal 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.