Meaning

Relating to the law or to lawyers..

Definitions by Sense

1. Relating to the law or to lawyers.
2. Having its basis in the law.
3. Being established, permitted, required or prescribed by law.
4. Following the rules or syntax of a system, such as a game or a programming language.
5. (informal) Above the age of consent or the legal drinking age.
6. Permitting the use and/or sale of cannabis; in which cannabis is lawful.
7. (uncountable, informal) The legal department of a company or organization.
8. (countable) A spy who is attached to, and ostensibly employed by, an embassy, military outpost, etc.

Example Sentences

legal profession

According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.

legal precedent

legal motion

In South Africa, it’s still legal to “trophy hunt” the white rhino, which [Anna] Merz and others find reprehensible.

After 50 years, legal segregation is a distant memory, and race in America is not the unbridgeable chasm it once was. The country has a black president. The sort of comity that King evoked, in which the descendants of slaves and of slave owners “sit down together at the table of brotherhood”, can be found in many places, including the Deep South. The rate of marriage between blacks and whites is rising.

If you have no legal move, but are not in check the game is a draw.

Programming languages are designed so that each legal program has exactly one meaning

Word Forms

• more legal
• most legal
• legals

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Use legal when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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