"bring to justice" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-bring to justice.ogg [Australia] Forms: brings to justice [present, singular, third-person], bringing to justice [participle, present], brought to justice [participle, past], brought to justice [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|bring<,,brought> to justice}} bring to justice (third-person singular simple present brings to justice, present participle bringing to justice, simple past and past participle brought to justice)
  1. (idiomatic) To cause a person alleged to have committed criminal acts to be brought to trial on the offenses. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: bring to book Translations (cause a person to be brought to trial on offenses): 繩之以法 (Chinese Mandarin), 绳之以法 (shéngzhīyǐfǎ) (Chinese Mandarin), 歸案 (Chinese Mandarin), 归案 (guī'àn) (Chinese Mandarin), viedä oikeuteen (Finnish), vetää oikeuteen (Finnish), traduire en justice (French), stawiać przed sądem [imperfective] (Polish), postawić przed sądem [perfective] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-bring_to_justice-en-verb-3n3yP4ib Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for bring to justice meaning in English (2.9kB)

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