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n.
legal action
argument
1) to hear, try a ~ (the court will not hear this ~)
2) to argue, plead a ~ (the lawyer argued the ~ skillfully)
3) to make (out), present, state; take a ~ (she made out a good ~ for her client; the president took his ~ to the people)
4) to lose; win a ~
5) to decide; settle a ~ (they settled the ~ out of court)
6) to rest one's ~ ('to cease introducing evidence') (the defense lawyer rested her ~)
7) to dismiss, throw out a ~ (the judge dismissed the ~)
8) an airtight, ironclad, open-and-shut, watertight; clear; strong; weak ~
9) a civil; criminal; pending; test ~
10) a ~ goes to trial
11) a ~ against (we had an airtight ~ against him)
12) ( misc. ) to have a good ~ ('to have a convincing argument') (often ironic)
crime, felony
13) to break, crack, solve a ~ (the detective broke the ~)
14) to investigate, work on a ~ (the police worked on the ~ for a year)
instance, occurrence, example
15) to cite a ~
16) an attested; authenticated; borderline; celebrated; clear; flagrant; hypothetical; isolated, rare; open-and-shut ('easily settled'); similar; special ~
17) ( med. ) an acute; advanced; chronic; hopeless; lingering; mild; terminal ~
18) to be the ~ ('to be so')
19) in a certain ~ (in this ~; in any ~; in ~ of emergency)
20) a ~ in point ('a pertinent ~')
inflectional form
21) to govern, take a ~ (certain Russian verbs take the dative ~)
22) the ablative; accusative; dative; genitive; instrumental; locative; oblique; prepositional; vocative ~
misc.
23) a basket ~ ('smb. without arms or legs or who is in a completely hopeless situation'); as the ~ may be
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n.
container
cover
an attaché; display; jewelry; packing; pillow; watch ~