Own Right

Definition: Own Right

Own Right

Noun

1. By title vested in yourself or by virtue of qualifications that you have achieved; "a peer in his own right"; "a leading sports figure in his own right": "a fine opera in its own right".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Crosswords: Own Right

Books

• My Own Right Time: An Exploration of Clockwork Design (reference)

• William Hague: In His Own Right (reference)

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If any mischief come in such cases, it is not to be charged upon him who defends his own right, but on him that invades his neighbours. (Second Treatise of Government)

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Health

Although they are necessary in their own right, genes basically wait inside the cell's nucleus (control center) for other molecules to come along and read their messages. (references)

While the health problems caused by syphilis in adults and newborns are serious in their own right, it is now known that the genital sores caused by syphilis in adults also make it easier to transmit and acquire HIV infection sexually. (references)

Business

However, service providers have discretion to buy equipment and consumables below A$2,000 in value in their own right. (references)

These distributors sell to around 5,500 "ricambisti" or resellers, who may have retail outlets in their own right, but are generally similar to traditional wholesale distributors. (references)

Australian IT companies are also keenly interested in partnering with U.S. firms that are developing leading-edge technologies, either in distributing the product in its own right, or joining in an application into a bigger total solution. (references)

Civil Liberties

Ghana

In July 1999, the EC certified a breakaway faction of the ruling party as a political party in its own right. (references)

Economic History

Papua New Guinea

No single party has yet won enough seats to form a government in its own right. (references)

Argentina

UTEs (joint ventures) are not considered to be companies or legal entities in their own right. (references)

Political Economy

ALGERIA

Algeria applied for GATT contracting party status in its own right in 1987. Negotiations, however, never commenced. (references)

Political Rights

Fiji

Women also play important roles in the chiefly system and can be chiefs in their own right. (references)

Women

Fiji

In general women in the ethnic Fijian community are more likely to rise to prominence in their own right than are women in the Indo-Fijian community. (references)

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Expressions using "own right": in her own right ♦ in his own right ♦ in its own right ♦ in one's own right. Additional references.

Danish

selvstændig valuta (currency in its own right, fully fledged currency), selvstændig forhandler (fully authorized negotiator, negotiator in its own right, negotiator with full powers), fuldt bemyndiget forhandler (fully authorized negotiator, negotiator in its own right, negotiator with full powers). (various references)

Dutch

volwaardige munteenheid (currency in its own right, fully fledged currency), volwaardig deelnemer aan onderhandelingen (fully authorized negotiator, negotiator in its own right, negotiator with full powers), in eigendom toebehoren (to possess something in one's own right). (various references)

Finnish

olla jonkun omistuksessa (to possess something in one's own right), itsenäinen raha (currency in its own right, fully fledged currency). (various references)

French

négociateur � part entière (negotiator in its own right), monnaie � part entière (currency in its own right), appartenir en propre � quelqu'un (to possess something in one's own right). (various references)

German

vollwertiger Verhandlungspartner (fully authorized negotiator, negotiator in its own right, negotiator with full powers), jemandes Eigentum sein (to possess something in one's own right), eigenständige Währung (currency in its own right, fully fledged currency). (various references)

Greek 

αυτοτελές νόμισμα (currency in its own right, fully fledged currency), διαπραγματευτής με πλήρη δικαιώματα (fully authorized negotiator, negotiator in its own right, negotiator with full powers), διαπραγματευτής με πλήρεις εξουσίες (fully authorized negotiator, negotiator in its own right, negotiator with full powers). (various references)

Hungarian

saját jogon (in one's own right), saját jogán (in one's own right). (various references)

Italian

negoziatore di pieno diritto (fully authorized negotiator, negotiator in its own right, negotiator with full powers), moneta a pieno titolo (currency in its own right, fully fledged currency), appartenere in propriet� (to possess something in one's own right). (various references)

Pig Latin

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Portuguese

ser da propriedade de alguém (to possess something in one's own right), ser da pertença de alguém (to possess something in one's own right), pleno negociador (fully authorized negotiator, negotiator in its own right, negotiator with full powers), negociador com plenos poderes (fully authorized negotiator, negotiator in its own right, negotiator with full powers), moeda de pleno direito (currency in its own right, fully fledged currency). (various references)

Spanish

negociador de pleno derecho (fully authorized negotiator, negotiator in its own right, negotiator with full powers), moneda por derecho propio (currency in its own right, fully fledged currency). (various references)

Swedish

tillhöra någon som enskild egendom (to possess something in one's own right), självständig valuta (currency in its own right, fully fledged currency). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ingrowth, throwing, worthing.

-1 letter: trowing, whoring.

-2 letters: growth, righto, rowing, throng, thrown, towing, trigon, wright.

-3 letters: giron, girth, griot, grith, groin, grown, ingot, intro, night, nitro, north, ohing, owing, rhino, right, rowth, thing, thong, thorn, throw, tigon, trigo, whort, wight, worth, wring, wrong, wroth.

-4 letters: girn, giro, girt, gown, grin, grit, grot, grow, hint, hong, horn, inro, into.

+1 letter: downright, ingrowths.

+2 letters: antigrowth, upthrowing.

+3 letters: downrightly, growthiness, intergrowth, misthrowing, outthrowing, outwhirling.

+4 letters: flowcharting, ghostwriting, ghostwritten, intergrowths, interwrought, overthrowing.

+5 letters: counterweight, downrightness, flowchartings, growthinesses, mouthwatering, overweighting, woolgathering.

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