OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 1791

right

/ˈɹaɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
derecho
A legal, just or moral entitlement.
There are no rights whatever, without corresponding duties.
You have no right to go through my personal diary.
derecha
The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.
Sunak seems so scared of his party's swivel-eyed right wing that he has been panicked into focusing all new legislation on perceived 'red meat' issues which he hopes the Tory right…
The political right holds too much power.
derecha
A wave breaking from right to left (viewed from the shore).
📚 verb • entry_id 1792

right

/ˈɹaɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
corregir
To correct.
Righting all the wrongs of the war immediately will be impossible.