transcription, транскрипция: [ dʒʌstɪfaɪ ]
( justifies, justifying, justified)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
To justify a decision, action, or idea means to show or prove that it is reasonable or necessary.
No argument can justify a war...
Ministers agreed that this decision was fully justified by economic conditions.
VERB : V n , V n
2.
To justify printed text means to adjust the spaces between the words so that each line of type is exactly the same length. ( COMPUTING )
Click on this icon to align or justify text.
VERB : V n
see also left-justify , right-justify