1 ~ (sb) (for sth) to make a claim against sb in a court of law about sth that they have said or done to harm you:
[VN] to sue sb for breach of contract * to sue sb for damages / $10 million (= in order to get money from sb) * [V] They threatened to sue if the work was not completed.
2 [V] ~ for sth (formal) to formally ask for sth, especially in a court of law:
to sue for divorce * The rebels were forced to sue for peace.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for sue is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is sue a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, sue is tagged as verb.
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