Category: LawPart of speech: nounDifficulty: IntermediateRecommended for ★ UPSC

justiça social

/justiça social/Roman

English meaning: Social Justice

Definition

Fair distribution of resources in society.

Usage — When, Where & How

Formal to neutral; a fixed compound used in political, religious, and academic discourse about fairness in society. Often invoked in activism and policy.

Common Collocations

  • promover a justiça social
  • luta pela justiça social
  • justiça social e econômica
  • programa de justiça social
  • ideal de justiça social

Word Forms

f.; pl. justiças sociais (raro)

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Literary Heritage

“Não digo que a lei seja justa; digo que existe.”

“I do not say that the law is just; I say that it exists.”

Machado de Assis · Novelist · Late 19th century

Dom Casmurro

Machado de Assis, Dom Casmurro (1899), Ch. 17

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