[ US /ɫəˈdʒɪtəmət/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful
  2. based on known statements or events or conditions
    rain was a logical expectation, given the time of year
  3. in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles
    legitimate advertising practices
  4. authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law
    a legitimate government
VERB
  1. show or affirm to be just and legitimate
  2. make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone)
    They legitimized their natural child
  3. make legal
    Marijuana should be legalized
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How To Use legitimate In A Sentence

  • China says it respects the legitimate status of President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) while calling on Palestinian forces to end conflicts.
  • If she levels a levelheaded, legitimate accusation, delegitimize it by feigning astonishment and outrage.
  • For him, cruelty was a legitimate and necessary procedure, almost a profession of faith, and European artists showed him how to excruciate a tame local reality.
  • I can find no legitimate references to the use of metallic, inorganic, or organic silver compounds as a sanitizer, disinfectant, or sterilizing agent. quaternary ammonium chloride compounds - Mixtures of compounds such as alkyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride, didecyl dimethyl ammonium chloride, dioctyl dimethyl ammonium chloride, and octyl decyl dimethyl ammonium chloride are very commonly used as surface sanitizer; if you look at your household cleaners that claim disinfecting properties, there's a high percentage chance that you'll find a "quat". Question ;Microdyne
  • If the state thinks it is legitimate then it legitimates its own laws.
  • If you're a consumer and you get spam from a "legitimate" company, call them up and let them know how angry you are.
  • In the early years of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), and even one author's experience under the CISP program, the term compensating control was used to describe everything from a legitimate work-around for a security challenge to a shortcut to compliance. CSO
  • Very few of these cases involve plaintiffs afflicted with legitimate disabilities as most of us understand the term.
  • A woman responding to a survey about the experience of illegitimates in 1986 said that her mother ‘was put in an orphanage and did not get full knowledge about her parents until she was 55.’
  • Workers in East Asia thus need to explore and combine a variety of tactics to defend their legitimate interests.
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