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Have a just or legal claim on something or on some action, as in The accused has a right to legal counsel . The related have the right to is often used with infinitives, as in You have the right to remain silent . [Late 1300s] The antonym, dating from the mid-1600s, is have no right to , as in He has no right to push you aside . Also see in the right .

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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