rightful place

collocation in English

meaningsofrightfulandplace

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rightful
adjective
uk
/ˈraɪt.fəl/
us
/ˈraɪt.fəl/
A rightful position or claim is one that is morally or ...
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place
noun
uk
/pleɪs/
us
/pleɪs/
an area, town, ...
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(Definition ofrightfulandplacefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofrightful place

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Giving traditional ecological knowledge itsrightfulplacein environmental impact assessment.
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Her mission, as she defines it, is to restore selflessness, love and compassion to theirrightfulplacein the modern world.
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Nor, he says, do they want their "rightfulplacein society" to be determined in advance by those who can already use those forms.
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The most important effect is to restore the extra-parliamentary party to itsrightfulplaceas an active agent in party history.
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Similarly, the art forms, and in particular music, cannot then take theirrightfulplacein practice.
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Art has lost itsrightfulplacein the community.
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It is not the place to publish original research, therightfulplaceof which are the primary research journals.
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I thoroughly recommend this book and am confident it will find itsrightfulplaceon the bookshelves of both the specialist and general reader.
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In nationalist rhetoric 'our people' can be triumphant or oppressed, gloriously conscious of theirrightfulplacein history or tragically neglectful of it.
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In order to take itsrightfulplaceon the global stage, however, the region must have an accurate view of its own range of linguistic competence.
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Firstly, once one has discovered an aural interest in the more detailed spectromorphological features, it becomes very difficult to restore the extrinsic threads to theirrightfulplace.
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Under continuous professional vigilance, women can be maintained in a state of wellness and, therefore, free to concentrate on theirrightfulplacein a world of their choice.
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Therefore, the idea is not to take something away from rail but on the contrary to allow it to have itsrightfulplace.
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The closed-list system ensures that women and people from ethnic minorities can have theirrightfulplacein the list.
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Such legal protection would allow disabled people to take theirrightfulplacein society.
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It has now won itsrightfulplacein the scheme of things.
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Not to give people with dyslexia the specialist help they need to take theirrightfulplacein industry and society is neither cheap nor efficient.
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Let us remember that the pedestrian has arightfulplacefor consideration when it comes to traffic congestion.
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They now wish to take theirrightfulplacein the economic and social life of our country.
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