justice
/ˈdʒʌstɪs/
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- 2 syllables
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- Short i vowel
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- Final e often stays silent
jus - tice -> justice
(n) တရားမျှတမှု
၁။ [U] (က) တရားမျှတမှု။ laws based on the principles of justice ❍ campaign for social justice. (ခ) အကျိုးသင့် အကြောင်းသင့်။ He demanded, with some justice, that he should be given an opportunity to express his views. Compare INJUSTICE
၂။ [U] တရားဥပဒေ။ တရားစီရင်မှု။ the European Court of Justice ❍ There has been a terrible miscarriage of justice (ie a wrong legal decision).
၃။ Justice [C] တရားလွှတ်တော်တရားဝန်ကြီး။ Mr Justice Davies.
၄။ [C] (US ) တရားရုံးတရားသူကြီး။
❏ bring sb to justice [IDM ] အပြစ်ရှိသူကို ဖမ်းဆီးရုံးတင် သည်။
❏ do oneself justice [IDM ] လက်စွမ်းပြသည်။ He didn't do himself justice in the exams.
❏ do justice to sb/ sth; do sb/ sth justice [IDM ]
၁။ …မျှမျှတတ စဉ်းစားပေးသည်။ … ထိုက်ထိုက်တန်တန် အသား ပေးသည်။ He didn't play as well as he can, though to do him justice it was his first game since his injury. ❍ The photograph does not do full justice to the rich colours of the garden.
၂။ ထိုက်ထိုက်တန်တန် အားပေးသည်။ လက်စွမ်းပြသည်။ Since we'd already eaten, we couldn't do justice to her cooking (ie could not eat all the food she had cooked).
❏ Justice of the Peace n (abbr JP ) (အာဏာ ကန့်သတ်မှုရှိသော) တရားသူကြီး။
- The struggle for freedom and justice
- [social justice] : A society based on democracy, peace, and social justice
- He appealed to their sense of justice.
- Campaigners are convinced of the justice of their cause.
- The criminal justice system
- [a miscarriage of justice] : One of the worst miscarriages of justice ever seen
- The family are determined to see justice done.
- Criminals with political connections sometimes escape justice.
- The trial judge, Mr Justice Mitchell, adjourned the proceedings.
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