0 to give or to be a good reason for: --
It was the only thing that I could do - I don't have to justify myself to anyone.
[ + -ing verb ] I can't really justify taking another day off work.
1 to show that something is reasonable, right, or true: --
A host state may restrict the activities of a financial institution as far as it is justified by the general good.
They were perhaps justified in their anger at the relatively low priority accorded to older people.
Under this modern view, contractual obligations may only be justified in order to deter or compensate some harm to the interests of another person.
The use of" right", in such circumstances, seems to be a clear case of special pleading that my decision is justified by some unambiguous legality.
In any society only one sovereign legal order is possible and justifies the recognition of a state.
The qualities which they attribute to literacy thus take on the more general significance of justifying the vast expense on western education systems.
One requires a background of considerable behavioural complexity before one is justified in attributing to any creature beliefs, intentions and so on.
Such an approach was justified on 'national grounds', to replenish the supply of business and professional talent depleted by war.
