droit
Americannoun
plural
droits-
a legal right or claim.
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Finance, Rare. droits, customs duties.
noun
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
In fact, strictly speaking, the droit du sol is not an automatic right in France, as it is for example in the US where a birth certificate is enough to get a passport.
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
Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York, championed unsuccessful bills for federal droit de suite laws in 2011, 2014 and 2015.
From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2018
There still, however, survived among the French clergy a firm conviction of the Gallican Liberties, and the droit de régale continued to have the force of law.14—Continuation, § 197, 1.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.
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