Definitions for rights

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Spelling: [rahyts]

IPA: /raɪts/

Rights is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 97 anagrams from letters in rights (ghirst).

Definitions for rights

noun

1. (used with a plural verb) civil rights.
2. a just claim or title, whether legal, prescriptive, or moral:
3. Sometimes, rights. that which is due to anyone by just claim, legal guarantees, moral principles, etc.:
4. adherence or obedience to moral and legal principles and authority.
5. that which is morally, legally, or ethically proper:
6. a moral, ethical, or legal principle considered as an underlying cause of truth, justice, morality, or ethics.
7. Sometimes, rights. the interest or ownership a person, group, or business has in property:
8. the property itself or its value.
9. Finance. the privilege, usually preemptive, that accrues to the owners of the stock of a corporation to subscribe to additional shares of stock or securities convertible into stock at an advantageous price. Often, rights. the privilege of subscribing to a specified amount of a stock or bond issue, or the document certifying this privilege.
10. that which is in accord with fact, reason, propriety, the correct way of thinking, etc.
11. the state or quality or an instance of being correct.
12. the side that is normally opposite to that where the heart is; the direction toward that side:
13. a right-hand turn:
14. the portion toward the right, as of troops in battle formation:
15. (in a pair) the member that is shaped for, used by, or situated on the right side:
16. the right hand:
17. the Right. the complex of individuals or organized groups opposing change in a liberal direction and usually advocating maintenance of the established social, political, or economic order. the position held by these people: Compare left1 (defs 6a, b). right wing.
18. (usually initial capital letter) the part of a legislative assembly, especially in continental Europe, that is situated on the right side of the presiding officer and that is customarily assigned to members of the legislature who hold more conservative or reactionary views than the rest of the members.
19. the members of such an assembly who sit on the Right.
20. Boxing. a blow delivered by the right hand:
21. Baseball. right field.

Idioms

1. by rights, in fairness; justly:
2. in one's own right, by reason of one's own ability, ownership, etc.; in or of oneself, as independent of others:
3. in the right, having the support of reason or law; correct:
4. right and left, on every side; in all directions:
5. right away / off, without hesitation; immediately:
6. right on, Slang. exactly right; precisely.
7. too right, Australian Slang. (used as an expression of emphatic agreement.) okay: .
8. to rights, into proper condition or order:

adverb

1. in a straight or direct line; straight; directly:
2. quite or completely; all the way:
3. immediately; promptly:
4. exactly; precisely:
5. correctly or accurately:
6. uprightly or righteously:
7. properly or fittingly:
8. advantageously, favorably, or well:
9. toward the right hand; on or to the right:
10. Archaic or Dialect. very; extremely:
11. very (used in certain titles):

adjective

1. civil-rights:
2. in accordance with what is good, proper, or just:
3. in conformity with fact, reason, truth, or some standard or principle; correct:
4. correct in judgment, opinion, or action.
5. fitting or appropriate; suitable:
6. most convenient, desirable, or favorable:
7. of, relating to, or located on or near the side of a person or thing that is turned toward the east when the subject is facing north (opposed to left).
8. in a satisfactory state; in good order:
9. sound, sane, or normal:
10. in good health or spirits:
11. principal, front, or upper:
12. (often initial capital letter) of or relating to political conservatives or their beliefs.
13. socially approved, desirable, or influential:
14. formed by or with reference to a perpendicular:
15. straight:
16. Geometry. having an axis perpendicular to the base:
17. Mathematics. pertaining to an element of a set that has a given property when placed on the right of an element or set of elements of the given set:
18. genuine; authentic:

verb (used with object)

1. to put in or restore to an upright position:
2. to put in proper order, condition, or relationship:
3. to bring into conformity with fact; correct:
4. to do justice to; avenge:
5. to redress, as a wrong.

verb (used without object)

1. to resume an upright or the proper position:

Origin of rights

First recorded in 1895-1900

Examples for rights

rights activists like Boledi, the Iranian Baluch dissident living in Sweden, harbor some of the same concerns.

Hester, more than Amy, felt her own rights, and was ready to be indignant.

We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.

They are the preservation of the rights of the several States and the integrity of the Union.

True, this may not be what James Madison had in mind when he was writing the Bill of rights.

Things as trifling as the turning of a shell may restore you to your rights.

Can they determine that individual citizens should not have access to rights provided by the Constitution?

Now let us ask what are a child's rights, and what are the rights of society over the child.

That is the difference between the protections embedded in our Bill of rights and the lived lives of our citizenry.

In October, he traveled to Denver with Fry to support his work with LGBT rights organization The Matthew Sheppard Foundation.