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US
/ɫəˈdʒɪtəmət/
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ADJECTIVE
- of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful
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based on known statements or events or conditions
rain was a logical expectation, given the time of year -
in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles
legitimate advertising practices -
authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law
a legitimate government
VERB
- show or affirm to be just and legitimate
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make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone)
They legitimized their natural child -
make legal
Marijuana should be legalized
How To Use legitimate In A Sentence
- If she levels a levelheaded, legitimate accusation, delegitimize it by feigning astonishment and outrage.
- 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.
- Only a legitimate government can tackle the festering grievances in the north.
- ECLECTICISM : Nor can we find any willingness to make common cause with false religiosity as long as Christianity is accepted as one among many legitimate viewpoints.
- Considering how opposed many conservative Christians are even to soft-core pornography (at least publicly!), I find it hard to fathom how a soi-disant conservative Christian can legitimately justify posing for titillating photographs with the goal of material and professional gain in mind — and especially not while technically still a minor (Prejean was not yet eighteen when she chose to pose for the topless photographs). Think Progress » Miss Beverly Hills tries to one-up Carrie Prejean, says it’s divine law that gays be put to death.
- 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
