justicenoun
uk/ˈdʒʌs.tɪs/us/ˈdʒʌs.tɪs/justice noun (FAIRNESS)
B2 [ U ] fairness in the way people are dealt with:
There's no justice in the world when people can be made to suffer like that.
The winner has been disqualified for cheating, so justice has been done (= a fair situation has been achieved).
Opposite
injustice
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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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Justice and fairness
- 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
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justice noun (LAW)
B2 [ U ] the system of laws in a country that judges and punishes people:
the justice system in this country consists of a series of law courts at different levels.
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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Law courts
- appellate
- before
- bench
- chamber
- circuit court
- Circuit Court of Appeals
- court
- courtroom
- criminal court
- Crown Court
- dock
- High Court
- High Court of Australia
- jury box
- kangaroo court
- small claims court
- stand
- the Inns of Court
- the Supreme Court
- witness box
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justice noun (JUDGE)
[ C ] US a judge in a law court:
The president is expected to name a new Supreme Court justice within the next few days.
Justice Ben Overton
[ C ] UK used before the name of a judge in the High Court:
Mr Justice Ellis
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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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Judges & juries
- beak
- challenge
- chief justice
- court of inquiry
- dismiss
- empanel
- favour
- foreman
- instruct
- judge
- jurist
- juror
- jury service
- Justice of the Peace
- lord
- rule
- sheriff
- sum
- sum up
- worship
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Idiom(s)
do justice to sb/sth
do justice to yourself