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traditional right

traditional right noun: a subsistence privilege or right, which is owned legally or by custom by an indigenous community or village.

Noun

traditional right (plural traditional rights)

  1. A subsistence privilege or right, which is owned legally or by custom by an indigenous community or village.
  2. A right that is established by custom or tradition, as opposed to one established by law or a sense of social justice.
    • Having paved the way for viewing the state provision of welfare in terms of providing for people's basic needs, Raymond Plant still faced one difficult opponent: Maurice Cranston, who maintained that there is a crucial difference of nature between traditional rights and social ones.2016, João Carlos Espada, The Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty: A view from Europe, page 43

Forms of traditional right

pluraltraditional rights

Questions about traditional right

What does traditional right mean?
Traditional right means a subsistence privilege or right, which is owned legally or by custom by an indigenous community or village.
What part of speech is traditional right?
Traditional right is a noun.
What is the plural of traditional right?
The plural of traditional right is traditional rights.

Words near traditional right in the dictionary

  1. traditional medicines
  2. traditional owner
  3. traditional owners
  4. traditional publisher
  5. traditional publishers
  6. traditional right
  7. traditional rights
  8. traditional student
  9. traditional students
  10. traditionalise
  11. traditionalised

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