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verb (justifies, justifying, justified, justified)
- To provide an acceptable explanation.
- How can you spending so much money on clothes?
- Paying too much for car insurance is not justified.
- To give a good, acceptable reason for something.
- Nothing can your rude behaviour last night.
- To arrange lines on a page or computer screen in such a way that both edges of writing are straight.
- The text will look better justified.
Translations: - German: ausrichten, justieren
(trans-mid)
- Spanish: legitimar, justificar
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(trans-top, to arrange lines on a page or computer screen)
Etymology: From Latin justificare, make just, from justus, iustus, just, + ficare, make, from facere.
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