Phrase Hound found 283 phrases and 35 compound words that contain rights. The most common are listed below. Open rights in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 283
- human rightsThe set of basic rights and freedoms that all humans should be guaranteed, including the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law.
- civil rightsThe rights that can reasonably be expected by any citizen.
- all rights reservedThe copyright holder of a creative work reserves all copyright-related rights, typically including the right to publish the work, to make derivative works of it, to distribute it, to make profit from it, to license a number of these rights …
- property rightsRights pertaining to the ownership and possession of a given piece of property.
- animal rightsCertain fundamental rights that animals are entitled to, such as the right to be spared undue suffering.
- equal rightsThe concept that every person is to be treated equally by the law.
- gay rightsThe concept that people of minority sexual orientations such as homosexuality (gay people), are entitled to the same rights and considerations as heterosexuals.
- bill of rightsA formal statement of the rights of a specified group of people.
- buy the rightsTo acquire the legal rights to a work, property, story, or intellectual creation, especially for purposes such as publication, adaptation, or distribution.
- parental rightsA political movement aimed at restricting the teaching of gender, sexuality, and race without parental consent.
- rights to workplural of right to work: The human right (the right of an individual) to have gainful employment.
- Legal rights
- bragging rightsThe prerogative to praise oneself for a skill or accomplishment.
- air rightsThe right to build over an existing property.
- life rightsAn agreement with a person (or a deceased person's estate) to create fictionalized accounts of their life.
- constitutional rightsplural of constitutional right: A prerogative or a duty, a power or a restraint of power, recognized and established by the constitution of a sovereign state or union of states or by the established judicial interpretation of that …
- states' rightsRights reserved to the 50 state governments of the United States that allow each one to set policy on some issues, rather than being subject to federal policy, especially in reference to their right to allow slavery before the Civil War.
- water rightsplural of water right: Synonym of water privilege (“a legal or property right to access to abundant, affordable and clean water”)
- Voting rights
- fundamental rightsplural of fundamental right: Synonym of human right, sometimes with subtle differences.
- film rightsUnder copyright law, legal ownership of permission to produce a film as a derivative work of a given item of intellectual property.
- exclusive rightsplural of exclusive right: The power, granted by the government to persons, to allow or disallow others from taking certain actions (through legal force)
- rights issuesplural of rights issue: A dividend of subscription rights to buy additional securities in a company, made to the existing security holders.
- rights-of-wayplural of right-of-way: The right to proceed first in traffic, on land, on water or in the air. Also in metaphorical senses.
- Rights movement
Compound words 35
- rightsholderA person or organization that owns the legal rights to something
- antirightsOpposing somebody's rights.
- cyberrightsRights in cyberspace or on the Internet.
- nonrightsNot of or pertaining to rights (entitlements).
- rightsholdingHolding the legal rights to something.
- rightslessLacking rights or privileges.
- rightsownerSynonym of rightsholder: A person or organization that owns the legal rights to something
- copyrightsplural of copyright: The right by law to be the entity which determines who may publish, copy and distribute a piece of writing, music, picture or other work of authorship.
- outrightsthird-person singular simple present indicative of outright: Wholly; completely; entirely.
- rightsholdersplural of rightsholder: A person or organization that owns the legal rights to something