Litigate

Definitions: Litigate

Litigate

Verb

1. Engage in legal proceedings.

2. Institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against; "He was warned that the district attorney would process him".

Date "litigate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Synonyms: Litigate

Synonyms: process (v), sue (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Discord	Fall out, quarrel, dispute; litigate; controvert; (deny); squabble, wrangle, jangle, brangle, bicker, nag; spar; (contend); have words; n. with; fall foul of.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Litigate

English words defined with "litigate": Interpleader ♦ Litigated, Litigating. (references)

Etymologies containing "litigate": Delitigate ♦ litigation. (references)

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	He may have to litigate ("Don't Worry Be Happy"; performing artist: Bobby McFerrin)
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Domain	Title
Books	How to Litigate a Land Use Case (reference) Human Resources Revolution: Communicate or Litigate (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Children	Lebanon	The Government does not have specific child protection laws to remove children from abusive situations and does not grant NGO's adequate legal standing to litigate on behalf of abused minor children. (references)
Economic History	France	They may not litigate in courts. (references)
	Japan	The alternative to such a filing is to litigate under the Unfair Competition Law or at the JPO. (references)
Women	China	According to legal experts, it is very hard to litigate a sex discrimination suit because the vague legal definition makes it difficult to quantify damages. (references)
Worker Rights	Syria	Unions have the right to litigate disputes over work contracts and other workers' interests with employers and may ask for binding arbitration. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Litigate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "Litigate" is used about 10 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
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	90%	9	117,287
Lexical Verb (base form)	10%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	10	N/A

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "litigate": re-litigate.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "litigate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mbroj në gjyq (defend), kërkoj me gjyq, bëj gjyq me dikë. (various references)

Arabic		‏قاضى (adjudicate, cause, proceed, prosecute, sue), ‏رفع دعوي. (various references)

Bulgarian		съдя се с някого, оспорвам (call down, contest, contravene, controvert, debate, dispute, gainsay, impugn, oppugn, query, question). (various references)

Chinese		打官司 (Litigated, Litigating). (various references)

Czech		vést spor. (various references)

Dutch		procederen (go to court, sue). (various references)

Esperanto		procesi (go to court, sue). (various references)

Farsi		مرافعه کردن , تعقیب قانونی کردن (Indict, Law, Sue), طرح دعوی کردن . (various references)

French		plaider, mettre en litige. (various references)

German		prozessieren (go to court, sue). (various references)

Greek		έρχομαι σε δίκη, έρχομαι εισ δίκη, φέρω σε δίκη, φέρω εισ δίκη, διεκδικώ δικαστικώσ. (various references)

Hebrew		להתדין (parley), לדון (argue, deduce, discuss, govern, judge, punish, rule, sentence, talk over). (various references)

Hungarian		pereskedik (to litigate), perel (prosecute, Sue, to litigate, to process, to sue). (various references)

Indonesian		berdakwa. (various references)

Italian		litigare (argue, Bicker, brawl, fight, have a row, jar, quarrel, row, spar, squabble), essere in lite, essere in causa. (various references)

Manx		leighderaght (pleading, practising law), goll gys y leigh. (various references)

Pig Latin		itigatelay

Portuguese		litigar (to go to law, to take action against someone), litigante (suitor), processar (indictable, libellous, process, prosecution, Sue), acionar (actuate, drive, move, operate, set, Sue). (various references)

Romanian		se judeca pentru, se judeca, fi în litigiu (be at issue), contesta (challenge, contest, dispute, impugn, oppugn, question). (various references)

Russian		судиться. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		voditi spor, prepirati se (altercate, argue, bicker, squabble, take issue with, wrangle), parničiti se, ići na sud. (various references)

Spanish		litigar (to appear, to sue and be sued), hacer litigante. (various references)

Swedish		processa (act, carry on a lawsuit, proceed). (various references)

Turkish		mahkemeye başvurmak, dava açmak (bring a lawsuit, bring an action against, call, claim, commence, complain, enter an action, file a claim, go to law, indict, make a plea, plead, prefer charges, present a case, press a charge, proceed, process, prosecute, Sue, take action). (various references)

Ukranian		судитися, вести процес (plead a cause, prosecute), бути позивачем. (various references)

Welsh		cyfreithio (go to law). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "litigate": litigated, litigates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Litigate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Iltifat, Lidgate, nitigate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "litigate" (pronounced li"tigā't)
4	-i g ā' t	profligate.
3	-g ā' t	abrogate, arrogate, castigate, congregate, corrugate, delegate, desegregate, floodgate, fumigate, instigate, interrogate, investigate, irrigate, mitigate, navigate, obligate, propagate, relegate, segregate, subjugate, tailgate.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-i-l-t-t"
	-2 letters: aiglet, gelati, ligate.
	-3 letters: agile, aglet, atilt, latte, legit, litai, telia, title.
	-4 letters: alit, egal, gait, gale, gate, gelt, geta, gilt, glia, ilea, ilia, late, lati, lite, tael, tail, tale, tali, tate, teal, teat, tela, tile, tilt, titi.
	-5 letters: age, ail, ait, ale, alt, ate, att, eat, eta, gae, gal, gat, gel, get, gie.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-i-l-t-t"
	+1 letter: litigated, litigates.
	+2 letters: digitately, etiolating, glitterati, legitimate, levitating.
	+3 letters: aiguillette, egotistical, elutriating, integrality, legitimated, legitimates, legitimator, retaliating, ventilating.
	+4 letters: aiguillettes, alliterating, debilitating, earsplitting, felicitating, hesitatingly, illegitimate, intertillage, legitimately, legitimating, legitimation, legitimatize, legitimators, obliterating, reticulating.
	+5 letters: agglutinative, antilittering, diabetologist, egotistically, gesticulating, gesticulation, gesticulative, integrability, integralities, intercalating, intergalactic, interplanting, interpolating, interrelating, intertillages, legitimations, legitimatized, legitimatizes, negotiability, recultivating, restimulating, spaghettilike, tangibilities, unmitigatedly.
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