due process
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- noun
- /duː ˈprɒsɛs/
- Formal
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debido proceso
- The Court did, nonetheless, provide some insights into the due process question.
- due process clause
- due process of law
- due process rights
And the people are offered due process before that rate can be taken away.
- And the people are offered due process before that rate can be taken away.
- They are giving one group due process and that's white S Africans.
- The mission of my life is to bring due process back to reporting.
- We don't know because they are not granted due process.
- At the same time, TikTok is now suing the United States for a lack of due process in stocks.
- Our former allies that believe in democracy, free speech, due process see us as an enemy and a threat.
- We also find out that there's no due process involved whatsoever by design.
- Clinton should undoubtedly be locked up without due process.
- But I'm not taking the president's word in a tweet to justify denying someone due process, right?
- You are forever defending yourself against false charges with no due process.
- So Matt, for you, what bothers you is not the cannibalism, but the lack of due process.
- Using this standard, the court has also held that the trial of an incompetent person violates due process that if there's a bona fide doubt about the competency.
Examples
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The mission of my life is to bring due process back to reporting.
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When suspects die without due process, people lose confidence in the justice system.
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It's like, wait a minute, you know, there should be some sort of due process before you can take that kind of action.
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What sort of due process is this?
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So I think due process is reasonable.
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Second, due process is resource intensive.
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First, since a referral may lead to special education services, due process procedures must be implemented.
Academic text (1993) -
No person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.
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Details for administrative hearings are given to assure that due process requirements are met.
Academic text (1993) -
No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
Synonyms
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A rule that the government must follow fair legal steps before taking someone's life, freedom, or property
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines 'due' (owed, proper) with 'process' (a sequence of steps), so a learner could plausibly infer it means a proper or required procedure. However, its specific legal sense — procedural protections and rights against arbitrary denial of life, liberty, or property — is a specialized, institutional meaning not fully predictable from the parts; similar legal collocations exist cross-linguistically (e.g. Spanish 'debido proceso'), making it partially but not fully transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Due process may come from old law where due meant 'proper' or 'owed' and process meant the ordered 'steps' of a case. The image of following those clear steps helps explain why the phrase now means the right to a fair legal procedure.