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"buy a lawsuit" what's the meaning?
2016년 7월 14일 오전 1:53
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I think you might mean "file a lawsuit", which means to initiate legal action, to initiate a civil suit, to use the court system to try to get money from someone because of injury or damage
2016년 7월 14일
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This is not an idiomatic verb and noun collation. But that doesn't necessarily mean it has no meaning. It depends on the context. If this is definitely what you read/heard, and it was produced by a native speaker or in a published text, you would need to provide the entire context. The speaker might be making a creative/humorous use of language to make a point. For example, whereas, yes, we normally say "file a lawsuit," someone might "buy a lawsuit" by bribing the judge so that they win (thus, "buying the (outcome of the) lawsuit". Again, though, this would be a unique and non-idiomatic phrase and we would need to see the whole context.
2016년 7월 14일
"buy a lawsuit" has no meaning to me.
2016년 7월 14일
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