justice
♦♦ jus|tice /dʒ'ʌstɪs/ (justices)
1 [N-UNCOUNT]
Justice is fairness in the way that people are treated.
He has a good overall sense of justice and fairness...
There is no justice in this world!
2 [N-UNCOUNT]
The justice 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 justice of our cause.
= legitimacy
3 [N-UNCOUNT] oft N n
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 justice system does not treat them fairly...
4 [N-COUNT]
A justice is a judge. (AM)
Thomas will be sworn in today as a justice on the Supreme Court.
5 [N-TITLE]
Justice is used before the names of judges.
A preliminary hearing was due to start today before Mr Justice Hutchison, but was adjourned.
6
see also miscarriage of justice
7 [PHRASE] V inflects
If a criminal is brought to justice, 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 justice...
8 [PHRASE] V inflects
To do justice 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 justice...
9 [PHRASE] V inflects, usu PHR to n
If you do justice to someone or something, you deal with them properly and completely.
No one article can ever do justice to the topic of fraud...
10 [PHRASE] V inflects
If you do yourself justice, you do something as well as you are capable of doing it.
I don't think he could do himself justice playing for England...
11 [PHRASE]
If you describe someone's treatment or punishment as rough justice, you mean that it is not given according to the law. (BRIT)
Trial by television makes for very rough justice indeed.mis|car|riage of jus|tice (miscarriages of justice)
[N-VAR]
A miscarriage of justice is a wrong decision made by a court, as a result of which an innocent person is punished.
I can imagine no greater miscarriage of justice than the execution of an innocent man.po|et|ic jus|tice
[N-UNCOUNT]
If you describe something bad that happens to someone as poetic justice, you mean that it is exactly what they deserve because of the things that that person has done.
1 [N-UNCOUNT]
Justice is fairness in the way that people are treated.
He has a good overall sense of justice and fairness...
There is no justice in this world!
2 [N-UNCOUNT]
The justice 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 justice of our cause.
= legitimacy
3 [N-UNCOUNT] oft N n
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 justice system does not treat them fairly...
4 [N-COUNT]
A justice is a judge. (AM)
Thomas will be sworn in today as a justice on the Supreme Court.
5 [N-TITLE]
Justice is used before the names of judges.
A preliminary hearing was due to start today before Mr Justice Hutchison, but was adjourned.
6
see also miscarriage of justice
7 [PHRASE] V inflects
If a criminal is brought to justice, 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 justice...
8 [PHRASE] V inflects
To do justice 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 justice...
9 [PHRASE] V inflects, usu PHR to n
If you do justice to someone or something, you deal with them properly and completely.
No one article can ever do justice to the topic of fraud...
10 [PHRASE] V inflects
If you do yourself justice, you do something as well as you are capable of doing it.
I don't think he could do himself justice playing for England...
11 [PHRASE]
If you describe someone's treatment or punishment as rough justice, you mean that it is not given according to the law. (BRIT)
Trial by television makes for very rough justice indeed.mis|car|riage of jus|tice (miscarriages of justice)
[N-VAR]
A miscarriage of justice is a wrong decision made by a court, as a result of which an innocent person is punished.
I can imagine no greater miscarriage of justice than the execution of an innocent man.po|et|ic jus|tice
[N-UNCOUNT]
If you describe something bad that happens to someone as poetic justice, you mean that it is exactly what they deserve because of the things that that person has done.