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legitimate English

Meaning legitimate meaning

What does legitimate mean?
Definitions in simple English

legitimate Adjective

— Something that is legitimate is something that is correct or not fake by law

legitimate

— adjective (= logical) based on known statements or events or conditions rain was a logical expectation, given the time of year — adjective in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles legitimate advertising practices — adjective of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful — adjective authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law a legitimate government — verb show or affirm to be just and legitimate — verb make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone) They legitimized their natural child — verb (= legalize, legalise) make legal Marijuana should be legalized

Synonyms legitimate synonyms

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legitimate English » English

legal lawful licit true valid proper just rightful legalize fair right real orthodox logical legitimatize justifiable genuine correct legitimize legitimise legitimatise legalise splendid sound regular reasonable prominent loyal justify justified imposing handsome good fine equitable elegant due decriminalize decriminalise admissible acceptable veritable validate traditional titulary titular stark skillful sanctioned righteous

Conjugation legitimate conjugation

How do you conjugate legitimate?

legitimate · verb

Examples legitimate examples

How do I use legitimate in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The Mafia uses legitimate business operations as a front.
It's a legitimate worry.
Which prince is the legitimate heir to the throne?
All legitimate claims will be settled.
It's a legitimate question.
The university offers access to its campus libraries only to those members of the public with a legitimate research need to consult our collections.
There are no more legitimate priests in the world, we have only one true high priest in the heavenly sanctuary, who cleanses us from our sins.

Movie subtitles

Which means the break-in was legitimate.
He's got a hand in everything, legitimate and otherwise, mostly otherwise. And he gets away with it?
It seems to me that this is something near to a legitimate forgery.
With a legitimate company, this is a swell job.
Legitimate?
It's probably legitimate as salvage.
It isn't often a pretty girl has a real legitimate reason to cry.
The office looked legitimate.
Swear allegiance to my legitimate heir. Dmitri.
Only an undivided, legitimate throne, will save Moscow from her enemies and internecine conflict, without which the Tartars will again violate our frontiers, the Poles and the Livonians encroach.
I've always had a preference for legitimate enterprises.
I've built up a legitimate business here, with a positive future.
It would all seem perfectly legitimate. And only two people in the world would know.
Legitimate, even.
The BoIsheviks organized a military plot against the legitimate authorities.
It's a legitimate business.
He was transacting a legitimate deal.
Legitimate and logical hope!
I got it legitimate.
We're in a legitimate racket.
Bennett said he could get all the money in the world from him for a sure thing. but this is evidently a little too legitimate.
We gotta make Hartley's acquaintance in legitimate fashion.
Fifi stays in the legitimate theatre.
Perhaps not, but I'm on this train for legitimate reasons and I've neither the time nor the inclination to assist you with your work.
AND YOU'RE CALLING THAT A LEGITIMATE BUSINESS? I DON'T KNOW HOW THE THING WORKS, OKAY?
The people who knew him before. Learning that his fortune was not legitimate. Would flee from him, as from a plague.
That's legitimate.
Now all I'm asking is a fair chance to work up a legitimate business.
Why not call the Cops if you are so legitimate?
It was all so legitimate.
That was the only one that was legitimate, on the level and flattering too.
This is strictly a legitimate enterprise.
Something legitimate.
Well, I got 2,000 dues-payin' members in this local. that's 72,000 a year. legitimate.
Perhaps, if I was legitimate.
You're legitimate.

News and current affairs

Most states nowadays lie within borders that are widely accepted as legitimate, and they increasingly abide by international norms of behavior in times of war.
When it comes to tackling complex political and cultural conflicts, forging international and regional alliances around a legitimate objective is more important than sheer military capacity.
Despite some legitimate concerns about safety, it is hard to overstate the overwhelming benefits.
In 1991, America forged the most formidable international coalition since World War II, and led it in a fully legitimate war aimed at restoring regional balance after Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait.
Clearly, it is legitimate to interrogate a future Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) about his views on abortion.
Implicitly or explicitly, people take the side of the victims, contribute by sending money to them, declare even suicide bombers legitimate, and move ever further away from support for and defense of Israel.
The main targets - jobs, growth, and research - are considered legitimate from the standpoint of fairness when described in general terms.
If we want Europe to be more legitimate, we must explain how to tie these two dimensions of power.
But does the legitimate interest in knowing more about a politician extend to details about personal relations?
If Turkey grants its own Kurdish minority more cultural and language rights and allows legitimate Kurdish political representation in the Turkish parliament, the willingness of Turkish Kurds to oppose Ankara will be diminished.
But it will give legitimate expression to the will of a people long oppressed and entitled to their place in the sun.
Of course, these indicators do have a legitimate role to play in explaining housing markets, but they are simply not adequate to account for the recent booms.
The Bonn process established the principle of democratic accountability, gave Afghanistan its first directly elected president, and provided a new constitution that - approved after genuine debate and compromise - created a legitimate central government.
Which intervention policies are legitimate, and which are not?
Advocates of discriminatory measures often charge their opponents with stifling legitimate criticism of Israel.
Our hearts are with the rebelling youngsters and their legitimate yearning for freedom and basic rights to express themselves, choose their leaders, and earn their own living.
As a result, there are now legitimate questions about the underlying functioning of the US economy and, therefore, its evolution in the months and years ahead.
In the twenty-first century, a truly stable global order will depend on a legitimate and effective UN Security Council, one that reflects the plurality of the emerging multipolar world.
However legitimate disagreement with those policies may be, Germany is one of the continent's most scrupulous and exemplary democracies.
So the growing power of today's China naturally raises legitimate concerns.
So which policy interventions are legitimate?

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