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justice UK US [ˈdʒʌs.tɪs] noun

FAIRNESS

1. <A > uncountable 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
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Justice and fairness

• What poetic justice that Brady 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.

LAW

2. <E > uncountable the system of laws in a country which 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).
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Law courts

• 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.

JUDGE

3. <A > countable US a judge in a court of law
• The President is expected to name a new Supreme Court justice within the next few days.
• Justice Ben Overton
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Judges and juries
4. <A > countable UK used before the name of a judge in the High Court
• Mr Justice Ellis
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Judges and juries

• 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.
Idioms: do justice to somebody ▪ do justice to yourself