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Definition of "class action" [class action]

  • A lawsuit brought by one or more plaintiffs on behalf of a large group of others who have a common interest. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "class action" in a sentence
  • "When Britain’s Legal Aid Board approved funding for investigating MMR injury claims, Fletcher was ready with a list of hundreds of families willing to consider taking part in a class action lawsuit against vaccine makers."
  • "Then, after Lyn Redwood teamed up with a Dallas-based law firm that specialized in class action lawsuits, the floodgates opened.45 “Attorneys began to start focusing on it,” Redwood says."
  • "What’s more, almost half of the twelve children in his study had been funneled to Wakefield by Richard Barr, the class action lawyer representing parents convinced that vaccines had injured their children."