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Определение right 3 в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь
- If you say that you reserve the right to do something, you mean that you will do it if you feel that it is necessary. He reserved the right to change his mind
- If someone is a successful or respected person in their own right, they are successful or respected because of their own efforts and talents rather than those of the people they are closely connected with. Although now a celebrity in her own right, actress Lynn Redgrave knows the difficulties of living in the shadow of her famous older sister
- If you have a right to do or to have something, you are morally or legally entitled to do it or to have it. a woman's right to choose
- If something is not the case but you think that it should be, you can say that by rights it should be the case. She did work which by rights should be done by someone else
- If you say that someone is within their rights to do something, you mean that they are morally or legally entitled to do it. You were quite within your rights to refuse to co-operate with him. = justified
- If someone has the rights to a story or book, they are legally allowed to publish it or reproduce it in another form, and nobody else can do so without their permission. An agent bought the rights to his life He'd tried to buy the film rights of all George Bernard Shaw's plays
- Your rights are what you are morally or legally entitled to do or to have. They don't know their rights You must stand up for your rights