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CIVIL ACTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does civil action mean? 

CIVIL ACTION (noun)
  The noun CIVIL ACTION has 1 sense:

1. legal action to protect a private civil right or to compel a civil remedy (as distinguished from criminal prosecution)play

  Familiarity information: CIVIL ACTION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CIVIL ACTION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Legal action to protect a private civil right or to compel a civil remedy (as distinguished from criminal prosecution)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("civil action" is a kind of...):

action; action at law; legal action (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)


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