right of action

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   the legal right to sue

   Broaderright

Questions about right of action

What does right of action mean?

right of action means "the legal right to sue".

Is right of action a common word?

right of 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.