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   litigate

   /ˈlɪtɪɡeɪt/

   verb

   • 1. resort to legal action to settle a matter; be involved in a lawsuit: "the plaintiff is prepared to litigate"
   • ▪ take (a claim or a dispute) to a law court: "even a claim which is litigated and defended successfully involves high legal costs"

   Word Origin early 17th century: from Latin litigat- ‘disputed in a lawsuit’, from the verb litigare, from lis, lit- ‘lawsuit’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. litigable adjective
   • 2. litigator noun

   Scrabble Points: 9

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