Meaning & use
commercial litigations
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Meaning
nounplurallegalbusiness
Legal cases and court proceedings involving businesses, trade, or financial disputes.
Grammar: Always plural in this form; the singular 'commercial litigation' refers to the process or one case.
Patterns
- commercial litigations against someone
- commercial litigations involving something
- file commercial litigations
The law firm specializes in commercial litigations between suppliers and retailers.
Several commercial litigations arose from the failed merger.
She has years of experience handling commercial litigations in international trade.
Common combinations
- complex commercial litigations
- Complex commercial litigations can take years to resolve.
- commercial litigations lawyer
- He is a commercial litigations lawyer at a top firm.
- involved in commercial litigations
- The company is currently involved in commercial litigations in three countries.
Synonyms and how they differ
- business lawsuits
- More informal and general; 'commercial litigations' is the technical legal term.
- corporate disputes
- Often broader, including non-court disagreements; 'commercial litigations' specifically refers to court cases.
Word family
- commercial litigation noun
- The singular form, referring to the process or one case.
- litigate verb
- To take a dispute to court.
- litigator noun
- A lawyer who conducts lawsuits.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'commercial litigations' correctly?
Choose one answer.
Option 0 uses the plural noun correctly as the object of 'faced'. Option 1 uses a plural noun with a singular verb. Option 2 uses it as a job title, which is wrong. Option 3 uses it as a verb, which it is not.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “commercial litigations”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.