RIGHTS
/ɹaɪts/
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Definition
/ɹaɪts/
noun
- That which complies with justice, law or reason.“We're on the side of right in this contest.”
- A legal, just or moral entitlement.“You have no right to go through my personal diary.”
- The right side or direction.“The pharmacy is just on the right past the bookshop.”
- The right hand or fist.
- The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.“The political right holds too much power.”
verb
- To correct.“Righting all the wrongs of the war immediately will be impossible.”
- To set upright.“The tow-truck righted what was left of the automobile.”
- To return to normal upright position.“When the wind died down, the ship righted.”
- To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.“to right the oppressed”
Source: Wiktionary
