Usually means: Makes legal, justifies, or authenticates.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word legitimates:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. legitimates: Merriam-Webster
  2. legitimates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. legitimates: Vocabulary.com
  4. legitimates: Wordnik
  5. legitimates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. legitimates: Wiktionary
  7. legitimates: Dictionary.com
  8. legitimates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. legitimates: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. legitimates: Legal dictionary
  3. legitimates: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. legitimates: Encyclopedia

(Note: See legitimate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (legitimate)

adjective:  In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements.
adjective:  Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid.
adjective:  Authentic, real, genuine.
adjective:  Marital.
adjective:  (of a child) Lawfully begotten, i.e. born to a married couple or later legitimated.
adjective:  (of a sexual partner) Legally married.
adjective:  Relating to hereditary rights.
adjective:  Belonging or relating to the legitimate theater.
noun:  A person born to a legally married couple.
verb:  (transitive) To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; especially, to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means.
▸ Also see legitimate


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