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noun

justification

something (such as a fact or circumstance) that shows an action to be reasonable or necessary

In a sentence

Six example sentences with justification, each labelled with its topic.

  • The officer offered no justification for the stop beyond a hunch, and the judge excluded everything found afterward.

    Law

  • Finance rejected the hire because the justification ran to one line about being busy, with no workload data attached.

    Business

  • The extra columns had a structural justification: without them the cantilevered roof would sag by twelve millimeters.

    Architecture

  • The essay asks what justification a person could offer for breaking a promise once keeping it became inconvenient.

    Philosophy

  • The bank demanded a written justification for every expense over fifty dollars before it would extend the credit line.

    Finance

  • The founders' justification for the price increase was a chart showing server costs tripling in a year.

    Startups

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