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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Litigation \Lit'i*ga"tion\, noun [L. litigatio, fr. litigare to dispute, litigate; lis, litis, dispute, lawsuit (OL. stlis) + agere to carry on. See {Agent}.] The act or process of litigating; a suit at law; a judicial contest.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
litigation
noun: a legal proceeding in a court; a judicial contest to determine and enforce legal rights [syn: {judicial proceeding}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
64 Moby Thesaurus words for "litigation": Kilkenny cats, action, altercation, apologetics, apologia, apology, argument, argumentation, bicker, bickering, case, casuistry, cat-and-dog life, cause, cause in court, combat, conflict, contention, contentiousness, contest, contestation, controversy, cut and thrust, debate, defense, disputation, dispute, enmity, fighting, flyting, hassle, hostility, hubbub, judicial process, lawsuit, legal action, legal case, legal proceedings, legal process, legal remedy, logomachy, paper war, passage of arms, polemic, polemics, proceedings, prosecution, quarrel, quarreling, quarrelsomeness, rhubarb, scrapping, set-to, squabbling, strife, struggle, suit, suit at law, verbal engagement, war, war of words, warfare, words, wrangling
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
LITIGATION, noun A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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