justice noun (FAIRNESS)
B2 [ U ] fairness in the way people are dealt with:
The winner has been disqualified for cheating, so justice has been done (= a fair situation has been achieved).
Opposite
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- What poetic justice that Collins has to go to court to plead to be allowed to die, just like his innocent victims pleaded to be allowed to live.
- That photo doesn't really do justice to her good looks.
- The final score doesn't do justice to our team's performance.
- She felt that her exam results didn't do her justice.
- The book presents a vision of a society based on equity and social justice.
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- a fair crack of the whip idiom
- all's fair in love and war idiom
- an eye for an eye (and a tooth for a tooth) idiom
- balanced
- by rights idiom
- equitable
- even-handed
- eye
- fair
- fair go
- fair-minded
- fairly
- fear
- law
- poetic justice
- pound of flesh idiom
- reap what you have sown idiom
- term
- there's one law for the rich and another for the poor idiom
- without fear or favour idiom
justice noun (LAW)
B2 [ U ] the system of laws in a country that judges and punishes people:
The police are doing all they can to bring those responsible for the bombing to justice.
They are victims of a miscarriage of justice (= when the law has been carried out wrongly).
He has been accused of obstructing the course of justice (= preventing the law being put into action).
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- The perpetrators of the massacre must be brought to justice as war criminals.
- We shall do everything necessary to bring the murderer to justice.
- The state must ensure the independence and impartiality of the justice system.
- The defendants are also accused of attempting to pervert the course of justice.
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were fugitives from justice .
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justice noun (JUDGE)
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- Lord Justice Wallace is expected to deliver his verdict early next week.
- The re-trial will be heard before the justices.
- Justice Woolf is hearing the case in closed session.
- All but one of the justices agreed that the appeal should be dismissed.
- The Supreme Court of the United States has nine members - a chief justice and eight associate justices.
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