{
    "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’."
}