tort
A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, regarded as non-criminal and…A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury and can be remedied in civil court, usually through the awarding of damages.
» You're not a baker if you can't bake torts.
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2 sensesA wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury and can be remedied in civil court, usually through the awarding of damages.
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(obsolete)An injury or wrong.
- (law) any wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought
Examples
1 sentencesYou're not a baker if you can't bake torts.
Translations
7 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
From Middle English tort (“(uncountable) wrong; (countable) an injury, a wrong”), from OldFrom Middle English tort (“(uncountable) wrong; (countable) an injury, a wrong”), from Old French tort (“misdeed, wrong”) (modern French tort (“an error, wrong; a fault”)), from Medieval Latin tortum (“injustice, wrong”), a noun use of a neuter singular participle form of Latin tortus (“crooked; twisted”), the perfect passive participle of torqueō (“to bend or twist awry, distort”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to spin; to turn”).
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plural: tortsSynonyms
19 synonyms- (law) any wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought:civil wrong