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{
"term": "justice",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "the fair treatment of people",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "He pledged to **seek justice** for the victims of the tragedy."
},
{
"text": "Children often have a highly developed **sense of justice**."
},
{
"text": "laws based on the principles of **natural justice**"
},
{
"text": "They are demanding equal rights and justice."
},
{
"text": "Sometimes I feel that there's no justice in the world."
},
{
"text": "We will not get social order until we have economic justice."
}
],
"topics": ["Social issues"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["distributive", "economic", "environmental"],
"verb + justice": ["ask for", "demand", "pursue"],
"phrases": ["a sense of justice"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "the quality of being fair or reasonable",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Who can deny the justice of their cause?"
},
{
"text": "He demanded, not without justice, that he should be allowed to express his views."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["distributive", "economic", "environmental"],
"verb + justice": ["ask for", "demand", "pursue"],
"phrases": ["a sense of justice"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "the legal system used to punish people who have committed crimes",
"labels": "(British English)(North American English)(especially North American English)(especially US English)(especially North American English)(British English)(North American English)",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "the **criminal justice** system"
},
{
"text": "The European Court of Justice"
},
{
"text": "the **administration/obstruction of justice**"
},
{
"text": "They were accused of attempting to **pervert the course of justice**."
},
{
"text": "They were accused of attempting to **obstruct justice**."
},
{
"text": "Civilians were not subject to summary justice."
},
{
"text": "So far the robbers have escaped justice."
},
{
"text": "the battle for Taylor to face justice before the High Court"
},
{
"text": "those who are ultimately responsible for dispensing justice"
},
{
"text": "Restorative justice can only work when all parties agree."
},
{
"text": "the deadliest episode of vigilante justice in American history"
},
{
"text": "Some people saw the epidemic as divine justice."
}
],
"topics": ["Law and justice"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["civil", "criminal", "juvenile"],
"verb + justice": ["do", "administer", "deliver"],
"justice + noun": ["department", "system"],
"phrases": ["a miscarriage of justice", "pervert the course of justice"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "a judge in a court (also used before the name of a judge)",
"labels": "(North American English)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "used before the name of a judge in a court of appeal",
"labels": "(British English, Canadian English)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Mr Justice Davies"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to arrest somebody for a crime and put them on trial in court",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to treat or represent somebody/something fairly, especially in a way that shows how good, attractive, etc. they are",
"examples": [
{
"text": "That photo doesn't do you justice."
},
{
"text": "He didn’t play as well as he can, but to do him justice, it was his first game since his injury."
},
{
"text": "The review did not do justice to her talents."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to deal with somebody/something correctly and completely",
"examples": [
{
"text": "You cannot do justice to such a complex situation in just a few pages."
},
{
"text": "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)*."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to do something as well as you can in order to show other people how good you are",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She didn't do herself justice in the exam."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to tell a lie or to do something in order to prevent the police, etc. from finding out the truth about a crime",
"labels": "(law)",
"examples": [],
"topics": ["Crime and punishment"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdʒʌstɪs/",
"audio": "ju/justice/justice__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdʒʌstɪs/",
"audio": "ju/justice/justice__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Old English iustise ‘administration of the law’, via Old French from Latin justitia, from justus, from jus ‘law, right’."
}