right
adjective, right·er, right·est.
noun
- the privilege, usually preemptive, that accrues to the owners of the stock of a corporation to subscribe to additional shares of stock or securities convertible into stock at an advantageous price.
- Often rights. the privilege of subscribing to a specified amount of a stock or bond issue, or the document certifying this privilege.
- the complex of individuals or organized groups opposing change in a liberal direction and usually advocating maintenance of the established social, political, or economic order.
- the position held by these people: The Depression led to a movement away from the Right.Compare left1(defs 6a, b).
- right wing.
adverb
verb (used with object), right·ed, right·ing.
verb (used without object), right·ed, right·ing.
Idioms for right
- (used as an expression of emphatic agreement.)
- okay: “Can we meet tonight?” “Too right.”
Origin of right
usage note for right
OTHER WORDS FROM right
right·a·ble, adjective half-right, adjective, noun un·right·a·ble, adjective un·right·ed, adjectiveWords nearby right
Content related to right
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Example sentences from the Web for right
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Everywhere I go, ‘Hey Cartman, you must like Family Guy, right?’
Charlie ridiculed my faith and culture and I died defending his right to do so.
It is grandstanding for a right rarely protected unless under immediate attack.
Asserting our right to free speech is the only to ensure that 12 people did not die in vain.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Our Duty Is to Keep Charlie Hebdo Alive |Ayaan Hirsi Ali |January 8, 2015 |DAILY BEASTRousseau was right; he was a being apart; and the philosophers could not forgive him for his independence.
A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times |Francois Pierre Guillaume GuizotSlowly her right hand rose above her head with its index finger extended and slowly came down to her side.
The Light in the Clearing |Irving BachellerHow are we to know what is right and wrong, and what are our motives for approving and disapproving the good and the bad?
The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. |Sir Leslie StephenI see I shall have to explain this, although I had hoped to get right along with my story.
Houlihan's Equation |Walt SheldonIt is only the Gospel which unites them, in a right manner, “by a divine art.”
Pascal |John Tulloch
British Dictionary definitions for right
adjective
- formed by or containing a line or plane perpendicular to another line or plane
- having the axis perpendicular to the basea right circular cone
- straighta right line
- in favour withyou'd better stay on the right side of him
- younger thanshe's still on the right side of fifty
adverb
noun
- a punch with the right hand
- the right hand
- (often plural) the privilege of a company's shareholders to subscribe for new issues of the company's shares on advantageous terms
- the negotiable certificate signifying this privilege
verb (mainly tr)
sentence substitute
- indicating that a statement has been understood
- asking whether a statement has been understood
- indicating a subdividing point within a discourse
interjection
Derived forms of right
righter, nounWord Origin for right
Idioms and Phrases with right
In addition to the idioms beginning with right
- right and left
- right as rain
- right away
- right in the head
- right off
- right off the bat
- right of way
- right on
- right out
- right side of the tracks
- right side, on someone's
- right tack
- right up one's alley
also see:
- all right
- all right for you
- all right with one
- by rights
- come (right) out with
- dead to rights
- get right
- give one's eyeteeth (right arm)
- go right
- go (right) through one
- hang a left (right)
- have a right to
- have a screw loose (one's head screwed on right)
- heart in the right place
- hit (right) between the eyes
- in one's own right
- in one's right mind
- in the right
- left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing
- might makes right
- not right in the head
- (right) on the money
- on the right foot
- on the right tack
- play one's cards right
- price is right
- put right
- sail (right) through
- serve one right
- set right
- set to rights
- step in the right direction
- strike the right note
- that's right
- turn out all right
- two wrongs do not make a right
- when it comes (right down) to