Pronunciations (2)
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/ɹɪt/
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ɹɪt
Noun
A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something.
Usage- Countable
A document ordering that an election be conducted.
Usage- Australia
- Canada
- New-Zealand
- UK usage
- Countable
An order issued by the House of Lords summoning peers to the Chamber.
Usage- UK usage
- Countable
Authority, power to enforce compliance.
Usage- Uncountable
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We can't let them take advantage of the fact that there are so many areas of the world where no one's writ runs.
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Within Lololand, of course, no Chinese writ runs, no Chinese magistrate holds sway, and the people, more or less divided among themselves, are under the government of their tribal chiefs.
That which is written; writing.
Usage- Archaic
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- Uncountable
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Then to his hands that writ he did betake, / Which he disclosing, red thus, as the paper spake.
Babylon, so much spoken of in Holy Writ
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These aforementioned three donkeys I hereby order immediately transferred as payment for others herewith received, which shall comprise, by this compensatory writ, full and complete payment thereof.
Noun
(law) a legal document issued by a court or judicial officer
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