tort
/tɔrt/ n [C]Definition
› an act of injury or damage to a person or property that is covered by a law, so that the person can start a court action: The company has an army of tort lawyers ready to back up its demands.
(Definition of tort n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
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