rights
Because it is a word with a single syllable, rights is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofrights
- That which complies with justice, law or reason.
Example: "We're on the side of right in this contest."
- A legal, just or moral entitlement.
Example: "You have no right to go through my personal diary."
- The right side or direction.
Example: "The pharmacy is just on the right past the bookshop."
- The right hand or fist.
- The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.
Example: "The political right holds too much power."
- The outward or most finished surface, as of a coin, piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
- A wave breaking from right to left (viewed from the shore).
- To correct.
Example: "Righting all the wrongs of the war immediately will be impossible."
- To set upright.
Example: "The tow-truck righted what was left of the automobile."
- To return to normal upright position.
Example: "When the wind died down, the ship righted."
- To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.
Example: "to right the oppressed"
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