justicejus‧tice /ˈdʒʌstɪs/ ●●● W2 noun 
a book on the criminal justice system The killers will be brought to justice (=caught and punished). Acts of terrorism must not escape justice. → miscarriage of justice2fairness [uncountable] fairness in the way people are treated OPP injustice: Children have a strong sense of justice. His people came to him demanding justice. → poetic justice3being right [uncountable] the quality of being right and deserving fair treatment: No one doubts the justice of our cause.4do justice to somebody/something (also do somebody/something justice) to treat or represent someone or something good, beautiful etc in a way that is as good as they deserve: The photo doesn’t do her justice. No words can do justice to the experience.5do yourself justice to do something such as a test well enough to show your real ability: Sara panicked in the exam and didn’t do herself justice.6justice has been done/served used to say that someone has been treated fairly or has been given a punishment they deserve7judge [countable] (also Justice) a)American English a judge in a law court b)British English the title of a judge in the High Court → rough justice at rough1(16)
WORD ORIGINjustice
Origin:
1100-1200 Old French, Latin justitia, from justus; ➔ JUST2EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Children have a strong sense of justice.
- It's up to the courts to uphold justice - you can't take the law into your own hands.
- It is clear that "liberty and justice for all" is still a goal rather than a reality in the U.S.
- Many people no longer have confidence in the criminal justice system.
Longman Language Activatorto do something in a careless or unskilful way
· I think I did pretty badly in the exam today.· They packed the glass and china for us, but they did it very badly and a lot of stuff got broken.
informal to do something badly because you have made mistakes, often so that you do not get the result you wanted: · I've practiced all week, but I'm still afraid I'll mess up.mess something up: · Don't ask Terry to do it - she'll probably just mess it up.mess up something: · Danny messed up three plays and made us lose the game.
also make a hash of British informal to do something badly and make a lot of mistakes, especially when it is important that you do it well: · Let's be honest. Most people make a mess of handling money.· She picked herself up and started the dance again, determined not to make a hash of it this time.make a complete hash of something: · I made a complete hash of the interview - I don't stand a chance of getting the job.
informal to spoil something you are trying to do, by making stupid mistakes: · If you screw up too many times, they'll kick you off the team.screw something up: · I was so nervous about the driving test that I screwed the whole thing up.screw up something: · My audition was going really well until I screwed the last part up.
to do something badly, especially a job you have been asked to do: · Most people think the mayor is doing a pretty bad job.do a bad job of doing something: · He did such a bad job of labeling these envelopes I don't think I'll ask for his help again.
if an organization or someone in authority bungles what they are trying to do, they fail to do it successfully because of stupid or careless mistakes: · The plan seemed simple enough, but the CIA managed to bungle the operation.· Analysts agree that the company bungled its response to the crisis.
to do something badly, especially a practical job such as making or repairing something, as a result of being too careless or not having enough skill: · They were supposed to fix the roof, but they completely botched the job.botch something up: · We hired someone to fix the computer system, but he botched it up even more.botch up something: · I wouldn't take your car to that garage - they botch up the simplest jobs.
if someone who is in charge mismanages a system or planned piece of work, they do it badly because they did not organize and control it properly: · The whole project was seriously mismanaged from the beginning.· Many people accused the government of mismanaging the environment and indirectly causing the flooding.
informal to do something badly because you are not paying enough attention, especially when it is your turn to do something in a play or in a game: · I was so nervous that I fluffed my lines.· It should have been an easy catch, but he fluffed it.
British to do something less well than you could, in an examination, game etc: · My grandfather was very intelligent, but he never did himself justice at school.· There were a couple of good performances, but most of the players didn't really do themselves justice.
when a situation or decision is fair when something is done or decided in a way that is fair and right: · News reports should be held to a high standard of accuracy and fairness.· The judge has a record of fairness and non-discrimination.
when a situation is dealt with in a way that is fair and right, especially as the result of an official or legal decision: · It's up to the courts to uphold justice - you can't take the law into your own hands.· It is clear that "liberty and justice for all" is still a goal rather than a reality in the U.S.
if there is fair play in a situation, activity, game etc, people behave fairly and no one tries to cheat: · We need to instil in our children a strong sense of fair play.· A high level of sportsmanship and fair play is a tradition in the game.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a book on the criminal justice system The killers will be brought to justice (=caught and punished). Acts of terrorism must not escape justice. Children have a strong sense of justice. His people came to him demanding justice.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES It is not the job of the police to administer justice; that falls to the courts. a Defence Ministry spokesman He was found guilty of obstruction of justice. The trial was a parody of justice (=very unfair). O'Brien described his trial as a travesty of justice.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
a book on the criminal justice system The killers will be brought to justice (=caught and punished). Acts of terrorism must not escape justice. Children have a strong sense of justice. His people came to him demanding justice. It is not the job of the police to administer justice; that falls to the courts. (=catch and punish someone for their actions)· The authorities swore that the killers would be brought to justice.
· How effective is our criminal justice system?
(=decide whether or not someone is guilty of a crime and what punishment they should receive)
(=not be caught and punished)· These terrorists must not be allowed to escape justice.
a Defence Ministry spokesman He was found guilty of obstruction of justice. The trial was a parody of justice (=very unfair).· I appealed to her sense of justice.
· Why was Britain so slow to develop a national system of education?
O'Brien described his trial as a travesty of justice.· Those who refused, including the chief justice, lost their jobs.· Overall, Lucas, who retired in April 1996, was a successful chief justice.· The senior judge in question is former chief justice Eusoff Chin, who ran the judiciary throughout the Anwar trial.· I was to visit all the chief justices east of the Mississippi.· He became chief justice of the circuit for the 1288 Dorset eyre.· This was the chief justice of the state supreme court!
· Yet solicitors had considerable anxieties about aspects of the preparations for this drastic re-engineering of the civil justice system.· Six months is not a long time in which to evaluate the most radical overhaul of the civil justice system since 1875.
· In the administration of criminal justice the principle of independence from the wishes of government is of supreme importance.· The path Thompson chose was to study criminal justice because it was something he felt he could relate to.· The principle that justice should, as far as possible, be open is central to our system of criminal justice.· An inside look at the criminal justice system was the right kind of project, he thought.· Thomas also avoided taking avowedly conservative positions on controversial issues such as criminal justice and abortion.· Violanti, a former state trooper, is a professor of criminal justice at Rochester Institute of Technology.· The prison system, Woolf says, is part of the criminal justice system.· The younger boy faces a similar charge in the juvenile criminal justice system.
· This then linked the juvenile justice system with the overall provision of social work.· He has signed into law several of his top agenda items, including a tougher juvenile justice code.· Allowing that possibility has always been the chief point of the juvenile justice system.· The younger boy faces a similar charge in the juvenile criminal justice system.· Jim Leach are mentoring youths in the juvenile justice system.· He said Bush appealed to women voters in 1994 by focusing on education, welfare reform and juvenile justice.· Michigan was another state that rewrote its juvenile justice policies in the 1990s.
· If he perceives that there is a likelihood of bias, the rules of natural justice have been broken. 2.· On this view the distinction between the application of the terms natural justice and fairness is linguistic rather than substantive.· The first requirement of natural justice is the right of the prisoner to make representations.· Some commentators take a different view, seeing a broader significance in the shift from natural justice to fairness.· The courts have also addressed themselves to the question of whether natural justice or fairness applies to matters of a legislative nature.· A corollary of this view was that the content of the rules of natural justice could be relatively fired and certain.· Mixed in with the plea for self-empowering was this justification by appeal to natural justice.· They have always presented a problem for the application of natural justice.
· Just when you least expect it, she thought, poetic justice is waiting right around the corner.· And would it not be poetic justice if he who had devised it, eventually died by it?· It stands for poetic justice, you under-stand.· If that were so, subsequent events had some of the characteristics of poetic justice.· Once again the principle of { poetic justice } is demonstrated.· Yet we have already noted how, in terms of poetic justice for instance, fabliau morality is often conventional in precisely these terms.· In doing so she has laid herself low as well. Poetic justice.
· For that he was put to death and there was, in one respect, a rough justice about it.· So there was rough justice in the world.· On the other hand this meted out only a very rough justice to owners.· Exiled by Bolcarro to that judicial Siberia, Judge Lyttle applied his own rough justice.· Here rappers become vigilantes or revolutionaries: machines for dispensing rough justice or revenge.· Perhaps this was rough justice for my having ridden that one mile on the workmen's lorry on the sixth day.· But the appetite for rough justice which the gun-toting sheriff satisfied does not easily go away.· As it happens, there'd be a certain rough justice if I got a wage from it.
· Delivery on social justice now seems further away than ever.· But moving towards social justice means also establishing a just system.· It therefore serves the cause of social justice to take groups as well as individuals into account.· Much of his commitment to social justice came late in life.· It also attracts many from the middle or professional classes who have a commitment to social and economic justice.· The services focus on multiculturalism and social justice.· Democratic principles enjoin it; social justice requires it; national safety demands it.· But I was a greedy child who knew nothing of cliches or social justice.
· He made no promise that he would name centrist, moderate Supreme Court justices if given the opportunity.· The keynote speaker was Arthur Goldberg, now a Supreme Court justice.
NOUN· He made no promise that he would name centrist, moderate Supreme Court justices if given the opportunity.· The keynote speaker was Arthur Goldberg, now a Supreme Court justice.
· The news leaked out last weekend, and pressure has mounted on the justice minister, Oliviero Diliberto, to investigate.· Earlier this month the justice minister was forced to depart.· Former justice minister Tzahi Hanegbi faces indictment on corruption charges.· The justice minister is currently being investigated for insulting the police, who wanted to ban the League's praetorian guard.· But the justice minister, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, is against this.· Mr Salazar is the ninth justice minister since August 1986.· Wasn't it Lord Chief Justice Hewitt who first made this remark in 1967 when justice minister?· In 1967 he entered Lester Pearson's cabinet as justice minister.
· Meanwhile, prison conditions have deteriorated and the public has lost confidence in the criminal justice system.· The bomber in Vallejo, police said, was part of a plot to disrupt the criminal justice system there.· Read in studio A senior police officer has criticised the way the criminal justice system handles young offenders.· It should change the argument about capital punishment and other aspects of the criminal justice system.· Is it a prison or the whole criminal justice system?· Allowing that possibility has always been the chief point of the juvenile justice system.
VERB· What happened there represents a frontal challenge to how the courts, the states and the federal government administer justice.
· And none of the killers has been brought to justice.· Angela Lansbury must be brought to justice for the bloodbath that is Cabot Cove.· Murderers had been brought to justice in only a small number of the cases referred to.· I would bring justice to the city.· This text gives us a new basis for co-operation with our partners in bringing these criminals to justice.· We should have produced campaigns by now to identify and bring to justice the inevitable sanctions-busters.· Ratko Mladic, are brought to justice for alleged war crimes.
· Summoning the umpires he demanded justice.· Always there to denounce the system, demand justice.· Public protests demanding justice in the Gongadze case have mostly fizzled out, partly thanks to police harassment of demonstrators.· An outraged public demanded swift justice and retribution.· They demand a system of justice that is responsive to them.· When John demanded justice, the king refused to hear him.
· We could dispense some justice and hang him from the bowsprit to save the courts the trouble.· Here rappers become vigilantes or revolutionaries: machines for dispensing rough justice or revenge.· A new international law made it a duty to dispense justice to victims, whatever reason of state might be invoked.· Who dispenses justice round here? 18.
· No way at all that a few hundred words are going to do justice to this deeply affecting novel.· Rex who admitted to being the worst cook on board, was determined to do them justice.· I'd do you justice, Max.· Many are drunks-but that term does not do justice to the devastation they embody.· But Ifor can, and now will, do more to pursue justice as well as peace.· And the word affective scarcely did justice to the nature of those characteristics.· Nor do five pages do justice to the debate over the meaning of the Second Amendment.· Doctrinaire denial of a generational injustice does no justice either to the truth or to the victims.
· Some critics might favour the pragmatic solution of convicting both, to ensure that the guilty party does not escape justice.
· They are also accused of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.· Archer denies perjury, perverting the course of justice and using a false instrument.· The friend, Ted Francis, denies perverting the course of justice.· It is claimed Metclafe inflicted grievous bodily harm to a man and then attempted to pervert the course of justice.· Six officers were originally charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and the seventh with unlawful wounding.· But tonight Crabb is starting a life sentence for murder and Taylor was given nine years for perverting the course of justice.· Another Leeds player, defender Michael Duberry, pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
· Furthermore, the implementation of some conceptions of the good is incompatible with the principles of justice and is ruled out altogether.· If the justices rule for Clinton, the lawsuit will be put on hold for four more years.· The justices did not rule that the law is constitutional.· Dissenting justices said the ruling takes away the privacy protections of tens of millions of innocent passengers.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► appeal to somebody’s better nature/sense of justice etc
1system of judgement [uncountable] the system by which people are judged in courts of law and criminals are punished: - TV doesn't do the excitement of the game justice.
- A reading that cancels out the contradictory and equally valid meanings the text yields does not do justice to its complexity.
- At times only swear words can truly do justice to an emotion.
- How ethical theory might do justice to both these points remains to be seen. 9.
- It is virtually impossible to do justice to a book of this size in such a short review.
- Many are drunks-but that term does not do justice to the devastation they embody.
- No way at all that a few hundred words are going to do justice to this deeply affecting novel.
- This brief note can not do justice to all the facts and arguments involved.
- To do otherwise, I would require to write in volume in order to do justice to them.
- I am sure he will do himself justice.
- If Rebecca is to do herself justice, she needs to define her terms.
- He can continue to appeal, or go to some other level, until he feels justice has been done.
- He has successfully persuaded the crowd that justice has been done.
- Mr Townsend says he feels justice has been done.
- Mrs Alliss' solicitor says justice has been done.
- Extending the ban to wedding rings, in the interests of safety, say the company, has upset some workers.
- Ideally, the student should be making all the decisions and choosing actions in the interests of safety and efficiency.
- If the alarm gets no response, the timer goes ahead and switches off in the interest of safety and economy.
- The mature glider pilot would never hesitate to make a fool of himself in the interests of safety.
- We should be able to state which fuse we require when we buy a plug in the interest of safety and economics.
- At present rules of a legislative nature are not generally subject to natural justice. 2.
- But Aristotle did not conceive of natural laws based on mathematical principles.
- If he perceives that there is a likelihood of bias, the rules of natural justice have been broken. 2.
- It may have failed in the course of the inquiry to comply with the requirements of natural justice.
- Lord Denning restricted the full application of the rules of natural justice on the ground of national security.
- Some commentators take a different view, seeing a broader significance in the shift from natural justice to fairness.
- The injunction is important in public law in the context of the rules of natural justice.
- They have always presented a problem for the application of natural justice.
- Another Leeds player, defender Michael Duberry, pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
- Archer denies perjury, perverting the course of justice and using a false instrument.
- But tonight Crabb is starting a life sentence for murder and Taylor was given nine years for perverting the course of justice.
- It is claimed Metclafe inflicted grievous bodily harm to a man and then attempted to pervert the course of justice.
- Six officers were originally charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and the seventh with unlawful wounding.
- The friend, Ted Francis, denies perverting the course of justice.
- They are also accused of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
- the rough justice of the Old West
- But the appetite for rough justice which the gun-toting sheriff satisfied does not easily go away.
- Exiled by Bolcarro to that judicial Siberia, Judge Lyttle applied his own rough justice.
- For that he was put to death and there was, in one respect, a rough justice about it.
- Here rappers become vigilantes or revolutionaries: machines for dispensing rough justice or revenge.
- It seemed to her to be the nearest thing to rough justice that would ever present itself.
- On the other hand this meted out only a very rough justice to owners.
- Perhaps this was rough justice for my having ridden that one mile on the workmen's lorry on the sixth day.
- So there was rough justice in the world.
- A corollary of this view was that the content of the rules of natural justice could be relatively fired and certain.
- An obvious example would be if it reached a decision in flagrant breach of the rules of natural justice.
- If he perceives that there is a likelihood of bias, the rules of natural justice have been broken. 2.
- Lord Denning restricted the full application of the rules of natural justice on the ground of national security.
- Similarly, a requirement that the expert observe the rules of natural justice could be made a contractual obligation.
- The injunction is important in public law in the context of the rules of natural justice.
- When do the rules of natural justice apply?
a book on the criminal justice system The killers will be brought to justice (=caught and punished). Acts of terrorism must not escape justice. → miscarriage of justice2fairness [uncountable] fairness in the way people are treated OPP injustice: Children have a strong sense of justice. His people came to him demanding justice. → poetic justice3being right [uncountable] the quality of being right and deserving fair treatment: No one doubts the justice of our cause.4do justice to somebody/something (also do somebody/something justice) to treat or represent someone or something good, beautiful etc in a way that is as good as they deserve: The photo doesn’t do her justice. No words can do justice to the experience.5do yourself justice to do something such as a test well enough to show your real ability: Sara panicked in the exam and didn’t do herself justice.6justice has been done/served used to say that someone has been treated fairly or has been given a punishment they deserve7judge [countable] (also Justice) a)American English a judge in a law court b)British English the title of a judge in the High Court → rough justice at rough1(16)