droit

[ droit; French drwa ]
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noun,plural droits [droits; French drwa]. /drɔɪts; French drwa/.
  1. a legal right or claim.

  2. droits, Finance, Rare. customs duties.

Origin of droit

1
1470–80; <French <Late Latin dīrēctum legal right, law (noun use of neuter of Latin dīrēctusdirect)

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How to use droit in a sentence

  • The amount of corn shipped was evidently small, the droits being insufficient to keep the pier in repair.

  • She had proclaimed no Déclaration européenne des droits de l'homme et du citoyen, as the French Revolution had ambitiously done.

    Thomas Jefferson | Gilbert Chinard
  • In its chapel the Committee of the section des droits de lHomme sat in Revolution days.

    Historic Paris | Jetta S. Wolff
  • The stranger, named the Droits de l'Homme, was returning from Ireland, and heading east.

  • The Mémoires sur les droits et impositions en Europe, (cited by Smith,) was a scarce and excessively dear book.

British Dictionary definitions for droit

droit

/ (drɔɪt, French drwa) /


nounplural droits (drɔɪts, French drwa)
  1. a legal or moral right or claim; due

Origin of droit

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C15: from French: legal right, from Medieval Latin dīrēctum law, from Latin: a straight line; see direct

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