in one's own right

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Prepositional phrase

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in one's own right

  1. As a consequence of one's own skill, qualification or status, rather than that of another.
    His parents are wealthy, but he is a millionaire in his own right.
    "Quarrelous" isn't a misspelling of "querulous" but a word in its own right.

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