right
/raɪt/ nounDefinition
LAW [C] › something that the law allows you to do: the right to free speech [+ to do sth] the right to vote
DIRECTION [U] › the right side of your body, or the direction towards this side: You'll find her in the second room on the right.
BEHAVIOUR [U] › morally correct behaviour: I've tried to teach them the difference between right and wrong.
have a/no right to do sth › to have, or not have, a good reason for something: He has a right to be angry. She had no right to speak to me like that.
the Right/right › political groups which support capitalism (= a system in which industries and companies are owned by people and not the government) : The right campaigned against the president.
(Definition of right noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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