droit
Americannoun
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a legal right or claim.
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Finance, Rare. droits, customs duties.
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of droit
1470–80; < French < Late Latin dīrēctum legal right, law (noun use of neuter of Latin dīrēctus direct )
Example Sentences
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In France, they call it “le droit à la déconnexion.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2024
He says that once the droit du sol has been abolished on the island, the lure will disappear.
From BBC • Feb. 14, 2024
“It’s about what the French call droit moral,” he says in a recent interview from his home in Los Angeles.
From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2020
So I could not have been more thrilled when #MeToo ripped away the curtain on the murky transgressions and diminishments that women had endured in the droit du seigneur era.
From New York Times • May 2, 2020
Ils avaient le droit d'arracher tous les ans un criminel � la peine de mort: droit de gr�ce, droit r�galien reconnu par la monarchie absolue des papes.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
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