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SJ

SJ is the abbreviation of San Jose.

SJ is the abbreviation of Secretary for Justice.

SJ is the initialism of social justice.

Meaning of San Jose

Proper noun

San Jose

  1. A large city, the county seat of Santa Clara County, California, United States.
    • San Jose, the county seat, is jokingly referred to as “Man Jose” by the locals, and with good reason: In the 22 to 29 age cohort, Santa Clara County has 37,410 never-married, college-grad men versus 27,147 never-married, college-grad women.2015, Jon Birger, Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game, Hachette UK, →ISBN
  2. A census-designated place in San Miguel County, New Mexico, United States.
  3. A census-designated place in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico.
  4. A municipality of Camarines Sur, Philippines.
  5. A municipality, the capital of the Dinagat Islands, Caraga, Philippines.

Meaning of social justice

Noun

social justice (uncountable)

  1. Fairness in society.
    • The leisure class enjoyed advantages for which there was no basis in social justice; this necessarily made it oppressive, limited its sympathies, and caused it to invent theories by which to justify its privileges.1932, Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness

Noun

SJ (uncountable)

  1. Society of Jesus (also as postnominal)

Forms of SJ

alternative formS.J.
alternative formS. J.

Questions about SJ

What does SJ mean?
SJ means society of Jesus (also as postnominal).
What is SJ the abbreviation of?
SJ is the abbreviation of San Jose.
What part of speech is SJ?
SJ is a noun.

Words near SJ in the dictionary

  1. sizzly
  2. sizzurp
  3. Siâny
  4. Siófok
  5. Siče
  6. SJ
  7. sjambock
  8. sjambocked
  9. sjambocking
  10. sjambocks
  11. sjambok

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Adapted from Wiktionary: SJ (page history and authors); San Jose (page history and authors); social justice (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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