fair playnoun [ U ]
uk/ˌfeə ˈpleɪ/us/ˌfer ˈpleɪ/in sport, the fact of playing according to the rules and not having an unfair advantage
C2 UK fair and honest treatment of people:
The committee's job is to ensure fair play between all the political parties during the election.
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Justice and fairness
- a fair crack of the whip idiom
- all's fair in love and war idiom
- an eye for an eye (and a tooth for a tooth) idiom
- balanced
- by rights idiom
- equitable
- even-handed
- eye
- fair
- fair go
- fair-minded
- fairly
- fear
- play the game idiom
- poetic justice
- pound of flesh idiom
- reap what you have sown idiom
- sporting
- term
- there's one law for the rich and another for the poor idiom
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