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Definition: Class Action |
Class ActionNoun1. A lawsuit brought by a representative member of a large group of people on behalf of all members of the group. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Class ActionSynonym: class-action suit (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Class Action |
| English words defined with "class action": anti-TNF compound ♦ fulminic acid ♦ Glyoxime. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "class action": Ajmaline, Aldose Reductase Inhibitor ♦ Disopyramide ♦ Histamine H2 Antagonists ♦ non-nucleoside, non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor ♦ Receptors, Dopamine D1, Receptors, Dopamine D2. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Tyler was now involved in a class action lawsuit against the Pressman Hotel over the urine content of their soup. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Class Action (1991) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The CLASS ACTION waits for customers at Bud N' Mary's Marina. Credit: Fisheries. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Roe v. Wade | 1973 | A pregnant single woman (Roe) brought a class action challenging the constitutionality of the Texas criminal abortion laws, which proscribe procuring or attempting an abortion except on medical advice for the purpose of saving the mother's life. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Jamaica | Fourteen of the men brought a class action civil suit, citing civil rights violations. (references) |
Minorities | Tanzania | In 1994 6 Barabaig plaintiffs filed a class action suit, which included 750 members of the Barabaig tribe, challenging their eviction by the National Food Corporation, a parastatal organization. (references) |
Women | Israel and the occupied territories | Despite 1996 legislation that provides for class action suits and requires employers to provide equal pay for equal work, including important side benefits and allowances, women's rights advocates claim that deep gaps remained. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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| Language | Translations for "class action"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | クラシック音楽 (class, classical music, classifier, cluster). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | クラスアクション . (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | assclay actionay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-i-l-n-o-s-s-t" | |
-3 letters: alations, classico, clastics, lactonic, sacatons, santalic. | |
-4 letters: accosts, actinal, actions, alation, alcaics, alnicos, asocial, atonics, caisson, calicos, canolas, casinos, casitas, cassino, catalos, cations, catlins, cicalas, citolas, classic, clastic, cloacas, coastal, cocains, conical, consist, instals, laconic, latinos, oilcans, sacaton, salinas, santols, satanic, scotias, socials, solatia, sonatas, stoical, talions, tincals, tocsins, tonsils. | |
-5 letters: accost, actins. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-i-l-n-o-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: sacculations. | |
+2 letters: cytochalasins. | |
+3 letters: classification, fasciculations. | |
+4 letters: classifications, miscalculations. | |
+5 letters: declassification, reclassification. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6C 61 73 73 41 63 74 69 6F 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101100 01100001 01110011 01110011 00100000 01000001 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C l a s s   A c t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006C 0061 0073 0073 0041 0063 0074 0069 006F 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37786785852356986758180 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ" |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ" |
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