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Legitimate meaning
In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements. | Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid. | Authentic, real, genuine.
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Example sentences (20)
But just as people may have legitimate reasons for not wanting the government to monitor their phones, fishing vessels may have legitimate reasons not to want their movements monitored.
Violence is never the first response of a legitimate political movement to a perceived injustice, but it is to ignore history to claim that violence is never legitimate.
Bury owner: Offers not legitimate Bury owner Steve Dale says the offers he's receiving for the League One club are not legitimate.
Kayfabe, in its original definition, referred to the solemn accord between wrestlers to ensure that everything that happened between the ropes was presented as either legitimate competition or legitimate avarice.
If EPAG’s actions stand, those with legitimate purposes, including security-related purposes, law enforcement, intellectual property rights holders, and other legitimate users of that information may no longer be able to access full WHOIS records.
Harriman liquidates his assets, risks bankruptcy, damages his marriage, and raises funds in numerous legitimate and semi-legitimate ways; "I", he says, "would cheat, lie, steal, beg, bribe—do anything to accomplish what we have accomplished".
Many of the 'legitimate' emperors listed here acceded to the position by usurpation, and many 'illegitimate' claimants had a legitimate claim to the position.
Such enterprises often operate openly and in doing so generate cash revenue from incidental legitimate business in addition to the illicit cash – in such cases the business will usually claim all cash received as legitimate earnings.
That's a legitimate spyplane; my purpose is not to give away legitimate national defense.
The first is legitimate evasive action by an opponent (what constitutes legitimate evasive action is an umpiring judgment).
When the legitimate packet is ultimately received, it is found to have the same sequence number and length as a packet already received and is silently dropped as a normal duplicate packet—the legitimate packet is "vetoed" by the malicious packet.
A Charity Commission investigation later ruled these were legitimate.
A community implementation of all the above suggestions is subsumed into these threshold conditions, and it is only after this threshold has been crossed, that policing reforms will become functional, sustainable and legitimate.
A council spokesman added: "Unlicensed breeders have a negative impact on legitimate licensed breeders and go unmonitored so welfare standards are not always maintained to the detriment of the puppies and dogs and over-breeding is common place.
A democratic politician has to keep asking himself whether, in his attack on an opponent, he has crossed the line that separates legitimate public criticism from mendacious advantage-seeking.
After all, the entire RussiaGate witch-hunt ending in the Mueller nothing-burger wasn’t even remotely a legitimate exercise in law enforcement.
After doing all the research like reviews and authenticity, we have not found any legitimate factor on this site.
After successfully breaking into a server, hackers try to steal sensitive data in order to take over new services on the network - databases, websites, cloud apps, etc. Sometimes, crooks block the accounts of legitimate users.
After the Communist takeover of China in 1949, many dissidents of the Communists fled to the island, where they established what they believed to be a legitimate Chinese government.
Although cryptocurrencies have been around for many years and still haven’t come to play any significant role in legitimate business — not to mention the astonishing scale of the scandals that have plagued the industry — they’re still being hyped.