justice
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justice/ˈʤʌstɪs/
▶noun
- 1 just behaviour or treatment.
■ the quality of being just.
- 2 the administration of the law or authority in maintaining this.
- 3 a judge or magistrate.
– phrases
bring someone to justice arrest and try someone in court for a crime.
do oneself justice perform as well as one is able.
do someone/thing justice treat or represent someone or something with due fairness.
Mr (or Mrs) Justice Brit. a form of address to a judge of the supreme court.
bring someone to justice arrest and try someone in court for a crime.
do oneself justice perform as well as one is able.
do someone/thing justice treat or represent someone or something with due fairness.
Mr (or Mrs) Justice Brit. a form of address to a judge of the supreme court.
– derivatives
justiceship noun.
justiceship noun.
'justice' also found in these Oxford entries:
advocate-general
- attainder
- cardinal virtue
- chancery
- chivalry
- CJ
- county commissioner
- crier
- Curia
- divan
- enrol
- equity
- fairly
- have
- high court
- -ice
- inequity
- injustice
- investigative
- JP
- judicature
- judicial
- judicious
- Justice of the Peace
- justiciary
- justify
- law
- Libra
- LJ
- Lord Chief Justice
- Lord Justice
- Mahdi
- mete
- miscarriage of justice
- MOJ
- natural
- natural virtues
- poetic justice
- Queen's Bench
- rightly
- rough
- Sanhedrin
- show trial
- sustain
- syndic
- theodicy
- tribunal
- unsafe
