Usually means: Provides valid reasons or explanations.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. justifies: Merriam-Webster
  2. justifies: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. justifies: Collins English Dictionary
  4. justifies: Vocabulary.com
  5. Justifies, justifies, justifies: Wordnik
  6. justifies: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. justifies: Wiktionary
  8. justifies: Dictionary.com
  9. justifies: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. justifies: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. justifies: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. justifies: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. justifies: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. justifies: Idioms

(Note: See justify as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (justify)

verb:  (transitive) To provide an acceptable explanation for.
verb:  (transitive) To be a good, acceptable reason for; warrant.
verb:  (transitive, typography) To arrange (text) on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned.
verb:  (transitive) To absolve, and declare to be free of blame or sin.
verb:  (reflexive) To give reasons for one’s actions; to make an argument to prove that one is in the right.
verb:  (transitive) To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
verb:  (law) To show (a person) to have had a sufficient legal reason for an act that has been made the subject of a charge or accusation.
verb:  (law) To qualify (oneself) as a surety by taking oath to the ownership of sufficient property.
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