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Dutch

• bestaansrecht

English

• raison d’etre; raison d’être (the most important reason or purpose for someone or something's existence)
hierop rust het bestaansrecht van de wet = this is the raison d’être of the law
• right to exist
geen bestaansrecht hebben = have no right to exist
• right of existence
• rationale (of one’s / its existence); rationale behind something
• legitimacy
• justification/justified/justify [the existence of something]
zijn bestaansrecht ontlenen aan = be justified by
zijn bestaansrecht bewijzen = to justify its existence