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Definition: NONSUIT |
NONSUITAdjective1. Nonsuited. Noun1. A neglect or failure by the plaintiff to follow up his suit; a stopping of the suit; a renunciation or withdrawal of the cause by the plaintiff, either because he is satisfied that he can not support it, or upon the judge's expressing his opinion. A compulsory nonsuit is a nonsuit ordered by the court on the ground that the plaintiff on his own showing has not made out his case. Transitive verb1. To determine, adjudge, or record (a plaintiff) as having dropped his suit, upon his withdrawal or failure to follow it up. |
Date "NONSUIT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references) |
"NONSUIT" is a common misspelling or typo for: nonskid, nonuser, snowsuit. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Condemnation | Verb: condemn, convict, cast, bring home to, find guilty, damn, doom, sign the death warrant, sentence, pass sentence on, attaint, confiscate, proscribe, sequestrate; nonsuit. |
Failure | Repulse, rebuff, defeat, rout, overthrow, discomfiture; beating, drubbing; quietus, nonsuit, subjugation; checkmate, stalemate, fool's mate. |
Success | Silence, quell, nonsuit, checkmate, upset, confound, nonplus, stalemate, trump; baffle; (hinder); circumvent, elude; trip up, trip up the heels of; drive into a corner, drive to the wall; run hard, put one's nose out of joint. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: NONSUIT |
| English words defined with "NONSUIT": Non-, Nonsuited, Nonsuiting. (references) |
| "NONSUIT" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "NONSUIT" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "NONSUIT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pushoj padi, pushim padisë. (various references) | |
Arabic | سقوط الدعوي, سحب الدعوة, شطب الدعوة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | отхвърляне на иск, прекратяване на дело. (various references) | |
Dutch | vonnis van afwijzing van verzet, verwijzingsarrest (judgment referring the case back, remand). (various references) | |
Farsi | عدم تعقیب . (various references) | |
Finnish | päätös,jolla asia on jätetty tutkimatta, päätös asian käsittelyn siirtämisestä toiseen tuomioistuimeen (remand). (various references) | |
French | retrait de plainte, rejet de la demande, ordonnance de non lieu, jugement de débouté d'opposition, débouter, cessation de poursuite, arrêt de renvoi. (various references) | |
German | Verweisungsbeschluss (remand), Überweisungsbeschluss (remand), abweisendes Urteil. (various references) | |
Greek | εγκατάλειψη δίκησ, απόρριψη δίκησ, απορρίπτω αγωγή. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kereset elutasítása, eljárást megszüntet. (various references) | |
Italian | sentenza di rinvio (judgment referring the case back, remand), sentenza di rigetto, decreto di rinvio (remand). (various references) | |
Manx | jee-aggyrt, cur jee aggyrt er. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onsuitnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | despacho de reenvio (remand), despacho de indeferimento, desistência (departure, flinch, quitclaim, renunciation, waiver), denegação (denegation). (various references) | |
Russian | отказывать в иске, прекращение иска. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | navesti na odustanak od tužbe, odbacivanje tužbe. (various references) | |
Swedish | nedläggande av mål, nedlägga talan mot, beslut om hänvisning (remand), beslut om återförvisning (remand), avvisning av talan. (various references) | |
Turkish | takipsizlik kararı almak (nolle, nollepros, nol-pros, non-suit), takipsizlik kararı (nolle, nolle prosequi, nollepros, non-suit), davayı düşürmek (non-suit), davanın reddi (non-suit), davanın düşmesi (non-suit). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | відмовлятися від позову (nolle). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "NONSUIT": nonsuited, nonsuiting, nonsuits. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-n-n-o-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: nitons, outsin, unions, unison. | |
-2 letters: niton, nouns, snout, suint, tonus, union, units. | |
-3 letters: inns, into, ions, nits, noun, nous, nuns, nuts, onus, oust, outs, snit, snot, stun, suit, sunn, tins, tons, tuis, tuns, unit, unto. | |
-4 letters: inn, ins, ion, its, nit, nos, not, nun, nus, nut, ons, out, sin, sit, son, sot, sou, sun. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-n-n-o-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: nonsuits, snouting, unctions, unionist, unjoints. | |
+2 letters: continues, continuos, contusing, contusion, countians, fountains, functions, gunpoints, intrusion, junctions, lunations, mountains, mountings, munitions, neutrinos, nonguilts, nonsuited, nutations, outsinned, punitions, stounding, tendinous, tonguings, tonsuring, trunnions, unionists. | |
+3 letters: astounding, centurions, construing, consulting, continuers, continuous, continuums, contusions, incautions, inductions, inoculants, insinuator, insouciant, insulation, intrusions, intuitions, inunctions, inundators, nonsuiting, nutritions, outshining, outsinging, outsinning, outsnoring, reunionist, ruinations, stoutening, subvention, suctioning, supination, unstopping, urinations, whodunnits. | |
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