TORT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tort mean? 

• TORT (noun)
  The noun TORT has 1 sense:

1. (law) any wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought

  Familiarity information: TORT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TORT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(law) any wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

civil wrong; tort

Hypernyms ("tort" is a kind of...):

actus reus; misconduct; wrongdoing; wrongful conduct (activity that transgresses moral or civil law)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Domain member category:

libel (a false and malicious publication printed for the purpose of defaming a living person)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tort"):

alienation of affection (a tort based on willful and malicious interference with the marriage relation by a third party without justification or excuse)

invasion of privacy (the wrongful intrusion by individuals or the government into private affairs with which the public has no concern)

trespass (a wrongful interference with the possession of property (personal property as well as realty), or the action instituted to recover damages)