litigate
B1CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law verb
To bring or pursue a claim in a court of law.
The company chose to litigate rather than accept the paltry settlement the insurer had offered.
Business verb
To pursue or contest a dispute through the courts.
Rather than settle, the supplier chose to litigate the breach of contract.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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