justice

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English Vietnamese dictionary

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Advanced English dictionary

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+ noun
1 [U] the fair treatment of people: laws based on the principles of justice + They are demanding equal rights and justice.
Antonym: INJUSTICE
See also - POETIC JUSTICE, ROUGH JUSTICE
2 [U] the quality of being fair or reasonable: Who can deny the justice of their cause? + He demanded, not without justice, that he should be allowed to express his views.
Antonym: INJUSTICE
3 [U] the legal system used to punish people who have committed crimes: the criminal justice system + The European Court of Justice + The two women stand charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice.
See also - MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE
4 (also Justice) [C] (AmE) a judge in a court of law (also used before the name of a judge): Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
See also - CHIEF JUSTICE
5 (Justice) [C] (BrE) used before the name of a judge in the HIGH COURT: Mr Justice Davies
Idioms: bring sb to justice to arrest sb for a crime and put them on trial in a court of law
do justice to sb / sth; do sb/sth justice
1 to treat or represent sb/sth fairly, especially in a way that shows how good, attractive, etc. they are: That photo doesn't do you justice. + He didn't play as well as he can, but to do him justice, it was his first game since his injury. + The review did not do justice to her talents.
2 to deal with sb/sth correctly and completely: You cannot do justice to such a complex situation in just a few pages. + I didn't feel well and wasn't able to do justice to the meal she had cooked (= I could not eat all the food).
do yourself justice to do sth as well as you can in order to show other people how good you are: She didn't do herself justice in the exam.
more at PERVERT v.

Thesaurus dictionary

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n.

1 fairness, impartiality, objectivity, objectiveness, equity, equitableness, fair-mindedness, justness, even-handedness, neutrality, fair play:

Justice triumphed on this occasion, and he was convicted of fraud.

2 the law, the police; punishment, prison, imprisonment, incarceration, detention:

He is a fugitive from justice.

3 law, right, morality, lawfulness, rightfulness, legitimacy, judiciousness:

His conviction was a miscarriage of justice.

4 See judge, 1.

justify

v.

vindicate, legitimate, legitimatize or legitimize, legalize, rationalize, substantiate, defend, support, uphold, sustain, validate, warrant, confirm; excuse, explain, absolve, acquit, exculpate:

My worst fears were justified. How can you justify owning three cars?

Collocation dictionary

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¹ fairness

ADJ.

economic, natural, social | rough

He saw it as rough justice when he got food poisoning from the stolen meat.

| divine

Some people saw the epidemic as divine justice.

VERB + JUSTICE

ask for, want

All I'm asking for is justice.

| get | deny sb

We have been denied justice for too long.

PHRASES

a sense of justice

The teacher's system of punishments appealed to the children's sense of justice.

² law

ADJ.

civil, criminal, juvenile

VERB + JUSTICE

do

Justice must be done in every case.

| bring sb to | escape

So far the robbers have escaped justice.

JUSTICE + NOUN

department

PHRASES

a miscarriage of justice

He spent twenty years in prison as a result of a miscarriage of justice.

| pervert the course of justice

She was charged with perverting the course of justice after admitting to burning vital evidence.

Concise English dictionary

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justices'dʒʌstɪs
noun
+the quality of being just or fair
+the administration of law; the act of determining rights and assigning rewards or punishments
+a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice
+the United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation); created in 1870