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litigate

/lit-i-geyt/US // ˈlɪt ɪˌgeɪt //UK // (ˈlɪtɪˌɡeɪt) //

诉讼,打官司,讼,审讯

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v.有主动词 verb
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    lit·i·gat·ed, lit·i·gat·ing.

    • : to make the subject of a lawsuit; contest at law.
    • : Archaic. to dispute.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    lit·i·gat·ed, lit·i·gat·ing.

    • : to carry on a lawsuit.

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Examples

  • Especially in heavily litigated Pennsylvania, courts upheld those changes.

  • Instead they chose to litigate around the truth, pretending there was a legitimate path to overturning state results when the law made clear there wasn’t.

  • Whatever the decision is will be litigated because they’re going to fight it.

  • Don’t try to show him stuff or re-litigate his refusal to look.

  • Still, experts point out that these procedures are far from perfect, and some are still being litigated.

  • That it took 12 years to litigate without one does no credit to the legal system.

  • Did you get the impression that Cosby would litigate anything he found in your book to be controversial?

  • Innocence is not a basis for appealing and we could not re-litigate innocence on appeal.

  • Our super-rich can litigate and settle their way out of charges we peons could never escape.

  • Rather than embrace the future, the two sides endlessly litigate the past.

  • He would not approve of her accepting the hand of a man who would be resolved to litigate this matter with him.

  • They cannot come into court to litigate their claims, nor can a court decide on them.

  • They are now protected by the treaty, but we will litigate them out of all their grants.

  • But so long as it's nobody but Goshorn, I'm goin' to stay and litigate the question till the Millerite millennium comes.

  • Many litigate in court, not that they may gain anything, but that they may harass others.