water right

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   right of access to water

   Synonymsriparian right

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Questions about water right

What does water right mean?

water right means "right of access to water".

What is another word for water right?

Close synonyms include riparian right. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is water right a common word?

water right is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.