DE FACTO meaning: In practice, not officially established

We found 52 dictionaries that define the word de facto:

General (23 matching dictionaries)

de facto: Merriam-Webster
de facto: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
de facto: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
de facto: Collins English Dictionary
de facto: Vocabulary.com
De-facto, de-facto, de facto: Wordnik
de facto: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
de facto: Wiktionary
de facto: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
de facto: Infoplease Dictionary
de facto: Dictionary.com
De Facto (De Facto album), De Facto (band), De Facto, De-facto, De facto (disambiguation): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
De facto: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
de facto: Rhymezone
De facto: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
De Facto: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
de facto: FreeDictionary.org
de facto: Mnemonic Dictionary
de facto: TheFreeDictionary.com
De facto: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
de facto: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)

de facto: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

Business (17 matching dictionaries)

de facto: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
de facto: Law.com Dictionary
Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
de facto: DivorceNet.com (Annotated Divorce Law Dictionary)
Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
De facto: bizterms.net
De facto: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
De-facto, de facto: Legal dictionary
De-facto, de facto: Financial dictionary
BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

I T Glossary (No longer online)
de facto: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

Reactive Attachment Disorder (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)

Political (No longer online)
DE FACTO, DE FACTO, DE FACTO: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
de facto: Idioms
de facto: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)

Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)

de facto: Evolution Glossary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

de facto: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
de facto: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (de facto)

▸ adverb:  (modal) In actual use or existence, regardless of official or legal status.
▸ adjective:  In actual use or existence, regardless of official or legal status.
▸ noun:  (Australia, New Zealand) A legally undeclared spouse; a partner in a spousal relationship which is not officially declared as a marriage, comparable to a common law husband or wife.

Opposite:

de jure

Phrases:

de facto segregation, De facto standard, de facto corporation, de facto merger, De facto embassy, more...

Adjectives:

irl, positive, even, realis, factual, real, authentic, actual, true, accurate

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