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legitimate
1. adj. In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements; lawful.
2. adj. Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid.
legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard or method
3. adj. Authentic, real, genuine.
legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions
4. adj. Lawfully begotten, i.e., born to a legally married couple.
5. adj. Relating to hereditary rights.
6. n. A person born to a legally married couple.
7. v. To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; especially, to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means.

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Example Sentences

Can't you see that I am trying to do some legitimate work?  This is, after all, a legitimate business transaction.  I think the only legitimate route to war is with the sanction of the security council clearly given, and it isn't there.  He would only sell to a legitimate historian, like my father.  It is illegal working and clandestine entry, with all the exploitation, abuse and suffering that causes for both the illegal workers and the legitimate workforce.

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