Definition of "civil suit" [civil suit]

• A lawsuit; an action filed in a court of law to recover for injury wrongfully caused by another. (noun)

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• "Andrea Lyon, the former Murder Task Force chief, represented him in a civil suit again the city of Chicago."
• "The criminal investigation went nowhere and the ensuing civil suit against the RNC and NJGOP ended up being settled for one dollar in U.S. district court."
• "The CFTC's civil suit focuses on a series of trades made in 2008 by Parnon Energy Inc., Arcadia Petroleum, and two traders— Nicholas Wildgoose and James Dyer ."