Term: civil action: legal action to protect a private civil right or to compel a civil remedy (as distinguished from criminal prosecution)
Candidate hypernym: legal action: a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong → 1
Candidate hypernym: starting gate: a movable barrier on the starting line of a race course → 0
Candidate hypernym: caper: a crime (especially a robbery) → 0
Candidate hypernym: dove: someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations → 0
Candidate hypernym: coue: French psychotherapist who claimed that if one imagined one was getting better, one would get better (1857-1926) → 0
Candidate hypernym: checker: one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers → 0
Candidate hypernym: tee hinge: a hinge that looks like the letter T when it is opened; similar to a strap hinge except that one strap has been replaced by half of a butt hinge that can be mortised flush into the stationary frame → 0
Candidate hypernym: bombing run: that part of the flight that begins with the approach to the target; includes target acquisition and ends with the release of the bombs → 0
Candidate hypernym: latinesce: an artificial language based on Latin → 0
Candidate hypernym: investor: someone who commits capital in order to gain financial returns → 0
Candidate hypernym: brook: a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river) → 0