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traditional rights

traditional rights is the plural of traditional right.

Meaning of traditional right

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

Questions about traditional rights

What is traditional rights the plural of?
Traditional rights is the plural of traditional right.

Words near traditional rights in the dictionary

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

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