transcription, транскрипция: [ dʒʌstɪs ]
( justices)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
Justice is fairness in the way that people are treated.
He has a good overall sense of justice and fairness...
There is no justice in this world!
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2.
The justice of a cause, claim, or argument is its quality of being reasonable, fair, or right.
We are a minority and must win people round to the justice of our cause.
= legitimacy
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3.
Justice is the legal system that a country uses in order to deal with people who break the law.
Many in Toronto’s black community feel that the justice system does not treat them fairly...
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4.
A justice is a judge. ( AM )
Thomas will be sworn in today as a justice on the Supreme Court.
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5.
Justice is used before the names of judges.
A preliminary hearing was due to start today before Mr Justice Hutchison, but was adjourned.
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6.
see also miscarriage of justice
7.
If a criminal is brought to justice , he or she is punished for a crime by being arrested and tried in a court of law.
They demanded that those responsible be brought to justice...
PHRASE : V inflects
8.
To do justice to a person or thing means to reproduce them accurately and show how good they are.
The photograph I had seen didn’t do her justice...
PHRASE : V inflects
9.
If you do justice to someone or something, you deal with them properly and completely.
No one article can ever do justice to the topic of fraud...
PHRASE : V inflects , usu PHR to n
10.
If you do yourself justice , you do something as well as you are capable of doing it.
I don’t think he could do himself justice playing for England...
PHRASE : V inflects
11.
If you describe someone’s treatment or punishment as rough justice , you mean that it is not given according to the law. ( BRIT )
Trial by television makes for very rough justice indeed.
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