Usually means: Apparent evidence at first sight.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word prima facie:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. prima facie: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. prima facie: Merriam-Webster
  3. prima facie: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. prima facie: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. prima facie: Collins English Dictionary
  6. prima facie: Vocabulary.com
  7. prima-facie, prima facie: Wordnik
  8. prima facie: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. prima facie: Wiktionary
  10. prima facie: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. prima facie: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. prima facie: Dictionary.com
  13. prima facie: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Prima facie: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Prima facie: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. prima facie: Rhymezone
  17. Prima facie: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. Prima Facie: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  19. prima facie: FreeDictionary.org
  20. prima facie: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. prima facie: Foreign Words and Phrases
  22. prima facie: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prima facie: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. prima facie: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. prima facie: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. Prima Facie: INSOLVENCY
  9. prima facie: Legal dictionary
  10. Glossary of Labor & Legal Terminology (No longer online)
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prima facie: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prima facie: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (prima facie)

adverb:  (law) At first sight; on the face of it.
adjective:  (law) Apparently correct; not needing proof unless evidence to the contrary is shown.

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