Na semana passada, abordamos algumas colocações da palavra ação, um correspondente de lawsuit.

Na coluna de hoje, mudando a direção da combinação linguística, i.e., partindo do inglês, apresentamos alguns possíveis correspondentes de colocações verbais formadas com o termo lawsuit.

Todos os exemplos foram retirados do Corpus of Contemporary American English¹, que pode ser explorado também por expressões de busca. Assim, para encontrar as colocações verbais com lawsuit empregamos a sequência [v*] a lawsuit.

 bring a lawsuit: entrar com ação

o Exemplo: "In the rest of the world, if you bring a lawsuit and lose you have to make the other side whole by paying the lawyers' fees."

 contest a lawsuit: contestar ação

o Exemplo: "The artist involved also did not have the money to fight a lawsuit."

 defend a lawsuit: representar em ação

o Exemplo: "From the moment the insurance company asks the lawyer to defend a lawsuit, the lawyer has to consider ethical obligations and to whom they are owed."

 dismiss a lawsuit: julgar uma ação improcedente

o Exemplo: "The Bush administration asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit by General Electric and uphold the Superfund toxic waste cleanup law."

 drop a lawsuit: desistir da ação

o Exemplo: "'But the Yankees' ownership fired him, ostensibly because he refused to drop a lawsuit against Vincent..."

 face a lawsuit: sofrer ação

o Exemplo: ".the police department needed to enact a genderneutral policy or face face a lawsuit from male officers or others who wanted light-duty assignments for non-pregnancy-related reasons."

 file a lawsuit: entrar com ação

o Exemplo: "In the Wolfes case, were they right to file a lawsuit against some of the kids they say were parties to the bullying?"

 lose a lawsuit: perder uma ação

o Exemplo: "Wisconsin lost a lawsuit last year after a judge said it violated the separation of church and state."

 settle a lawsuit: por fim a ação por meio de acordo

o Exemplo: "PricewaterhouseCoopers said it would pay $50 million to settle a lawsuit filed by Raytheon shareholders who claimed the auditing firm signed off on misleading financial statements."

 threaten a lawsuit: ameaçar ingressar com ação

o Exemplo: "Finally, after she threatened a lawsuit, she got a face-to-face meeting with the club's officers."

 win a lawsuit: ganhar uma ação

o Exemplo: "After an arduous court battle, I won a lawsuit against the train company, the result of which ensures my medical care."

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¹ https://www.americancorpus.org/

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