しょう
Meanings
Adjective (の)
Noun
Verb (する)
1. litigation; lawsuit
Kanji used
sue
lawsuit
Pitch accent
しょう
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Used in vocabulary (25 in total)
divorce suit; divorce proceedings
civil action; civil suit; civil proceedings
class action; class-action suit; class-action lawsuit
lawsuit; (legal) case
record (of legal proceedings in a court)
litigant; plaintiff; suitor
grumbling or mumbling to oneself
procedural law (as opposed to substantive law)
lawsuit undertaken without legal representation; pro se lawsuit
act of litigation; act of procedure
trial management (e.g. by the court)
pendency; pending legal case; pending litigation; pendente lite
pendency; pending legal case; pending litigation; pendente lite
administrative litigation (action)
litigation related to personal status (e.g. divorce actions)
Japanese lawsuit involving cases where hospitalized patients contracted Creutzfeld-Jakob disease from infected transplants
Examples (3 in total)
The judge in the case was not fair.
The judge disposed of the case in short order.
She sued him for damages.