Litigation
[lɪtɪ'geɪʃ(ə)n] or ['lɪtə'geʃən]
解释:
(noun.) a legal proceeding in a court; a judicial contest to determine and enforce legal rights.
编辑:汤姆--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act or process of litigating; a suit at law; a judicial contest.
编辑:梅尔维尔
同义词及近义词：
n. Lawsuit, suit at law, judicial contest.
手打:马吉
娱乐性解释：
n. A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
奥德丽整理
例句:
- Extensive litigation with new-comers followed. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- There was more litigation over this than over any other of Edison’s inventions. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Mr. Edison's storage battery and the poured cement house have not yet reached the stage of great commercial enterprises, and therefore have not yet risen to the dignity of patent litigation. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- This statement cannot be successfully controverted, for it has been abundantly verified after many years of costly litigation. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- All agreed that it must be the litigation. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- After fourteen years of litigation the patent was finally awarded to Berliner. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Hence, it is not surprising that, on the whole, the Edison lamp litigation was not less remarkable for quantity than quality. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- There was a big fight on between Gould's company and the Western Union, and this caused more litigation. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- But Mr. Edison could not create these great and diverse industries and at the same time give requisite attention to litigation. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The litigation on the Edison lamp patents was one of the most determined and stubbornly fought contests in the history of modern jurisprudence. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Thus, in 1893, the litigation was reopened, and a protracted series of stubbornly contested conflicts was fought in the courts. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
校对:塔玛拉