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1. Rights

   Rights are legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement; that is, rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people, according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory. Rights are of essential importance in such disciplines as law and ethics, especially theories of justice and deontology. Rights are often considered fundamental to civilization, being regarded as established pillars of society and culture, and the history of social conflicts can be found in the history of each right and its development. According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "rights structure the form of governments, the content of laws, and the shape of morality as it is currently perceived." The connection between rights and struggle cannot be overstated — rights are not as much granted or endowed as they are fought for and claimed, and the essence of struggles past and ancient are encoded in the spirit of current concepts of rights and their modern formulations.

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1. rights

   Plural form of the word right.

   The civil rights movement made great changes throughout society.

   Submitted by MaryC on February 7, 2020  

2. rights

   Social, ethical and moral principles, legislation, rules, entitlement or guidelines that empower optimum health, human rights, democracy, right to life, the fasttrack cocreation of socialism, socialist unity government, socialist policies, the fasttrack of building public housing on public land using nationalized construction organizations, free education, unity, stability, redistribution of wealth and resources across a country, freedom and the sharing of income, wealth and time locally, regionally, nationally, europeanlly and internationally for the shared optimum health, human rights, peace, prosperity and freedom of human beings and animals.

   Our rights are simple and easy to create and achieve together as a united humanity and animals.

   Submitted by MaryC on April 4, 2020  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'rights' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #751

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'rights' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1437

Anagrams for rights »

1. girths

How to pronounce rights?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

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   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of rights in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of rights in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of rights in a Sentence

1. Laurence Tribe:

   The issue is -- do the kinds of judges that he says he would insist on, the kind who would overrule Roe v. Wade, who don't believe in gay rights or women's rights, but who think the Constitution is frozen, if he really believes in their philosophy, it's an antiquated philosophy, but it turns out Ted Cruz drops that when it doesn't serve his purpose.

2. Dounya Zayer:

   Where are the good cops that I keep hearing of ? Thank you for your sympathy but I don't want to hear that there are good cops when not a single good cop helped me and I'm afraid to even leave my house now because I feel like I'm going to be pulled over and they're going to do something to me, i'm afraid to protest because I feel like they're going to see me at a protest. These are my rights that are being stripped away by good cops that are supposed to uphold the law and protect the people.

3. Maribel Garcia:

   Michael Jackson tweeted on March 26. The controversy over the condition of the elephant has gone all the way to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The socialist leader said that Ruperta’s condition is due to old age and that the claim that she is underfed is a conspiracy driven by enemies of the state trying to demoralize the country and, especially, children. Ruperta is 46 years old, middle aged for an African elephant that typically live to age 65 or 70. Maribel Garcia, the animal rights activist who first sounded the alarms on Ruperta’s health, told Fox News that for too long the elephant had been eating just pumpkins and some grass. The elephant should be weighing 7 tons, Maribel Garcia explained, but Maribel Garcia is currently at just 4. Elephants feed on carrots, grass, vegetables, fruits and bamboo leaves, we believe that the diet of just pumpkins and the absence of her veterinarian who has treated her for more than 10 years influenced the elephant to be in that state.

4. Edward Snowden on Thursday:

   We have to have a discussion, we have to come forward with proposals to go 'how do we assert what our rights are, traditionally and digitally and to ensure that we can not just enjoy them, but we can protect them.

5. James K. Polk:

   All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.

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