JUSTICE


Meaning of JUSTICE in English

(~s)

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 ~ and fairness...

There is no ~ in this world!

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2.

The ~ 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 ~ 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 ~ system does not treat them fairly...

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4.

A ~ is a judge. (AM)

Thomas will be sworn in today as a ~ 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 ~

7.

If a criminal is brought to ~, 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 ~...

PHRASE: V inflects

8.

To do ~ 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 ~...

PHRASE: V inflects

9.

If you do ~ to someone or something, you deal with them properly and completely.

No one article can ever do ~ to the topic of fraud...

PHRASE: V inflects, usu PHR to n

10.

If you do yourself ~, you do something as well as you are capable of doing it.

I don’t think he could do himself ~ playing for England...

PHRASE: V inflects

11.

If you describe someone’s treatment or punishment as rough ~, you mean that it is not given according to the law. (BRIT)

Trial by television makes for very rough ~ indeed.

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