legal
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
legal/ˈliːɡl/
▶adjective
- 1 relating to, based on, or required by the law.
- 2 permitted by law.
- 3 N. Amer. referring to a size of paper that measures 22 × 35.5 cm (8.5 × 14 inches): a yellow legal pad.
– derivatives
legally adverb.
legally adverb.
– origin ME: from Fr., or from L. legalis, from lex, leg- ‘law’.
'legal' also found in these Oxford entries:
accountant
- act
- action
- actionable
- adjudge
- adversarial
- alienate
- allow
- appeal
- arrest
- arson
- article
- assign
- assignment
- attach
- attorney
- Attorney General
- automatic
- ban
- Bank of England
- beneficial
- bimetallism
- bind
- bonded
- brief
- bring
- burglar
- bush lawyer
- capacity
- caption
- case
- casebook
- caution
- certificate
- cesser
- chancellor
- circumstantial
- commutation
- competent
- composition
- constructionist
- consuetude
- continue
- conveyance
- coparcener
- copyright
- cost
- counsel
- counterpart
- court
