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Lawsuit vs Suing - What's the difference?

lawsuit | suing |

As nouns the difference between lawsuit and suing

is that lawsuit is (legal) in civil law, a case where two or more people disagree and one or more of the parties take the case to a court for resolution while suing is the act of one who sues for something.

As a verb suing is

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lawsuit

English

(wikipedia lawsuit)

Noun

  • (legal) In civil law, a case where two or more people disagree and one or more of the parties take the case to a court for resolution.
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    suing

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (head)

    • Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) .

    Noun

  • The act of one who sues for something.
  • * Edward Bulwer Lytton
  • (obsolete) The process of soaking through anything.
  • * (Francis Bacon)
    • In this instance, there is, upon the by, to be noted, the percolation or suing of the verjuice through the wood; for verjuice of itself would never have passed through the wood: so as, it seemeth, it must be first in a kind of vapour, before it pass.
    (Webster 1913)

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