class action

class action
A legal complaint filed by a lawyer or group of lawyers for a group of petitioners with an identical grievance, often with an award proportionate to the number of shareholders involved. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary

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class action UK US noun [C] LAW
a legal action that is organized by a group of people who all have the same legal problem: »

She is one of about 100 women whose claims of discrimination led the U.S. District Court to expand the California case to a nationwide class action.

a class-action suit/lawsuit »

A class-action suit against the company describes its sales methods as ""inherently abusive.""


Financial and business terms. 2012.

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