Polyglot Dictionary

pleito

/ˈplejto/

el noun C1

el (masc.) la (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Academic Domain Legal Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
los pleitos

Meaning

  1. lawsuit

    • Ganó el pleito.

      He won the lawsuit.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

demanda

demanda also separately means "demand," economic; pleito is more purely "lawsuit."

Similar in other languages

French

demande en justice

demande en justice is the French word for the same thing — both mean "lawsuit."

Practice

1 What does pleito mean?

2 Fill the gap: Ganó el ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches pleito?

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