Usually means: In practice, not officially established.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. de facto: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. de facto: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. de facto: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. de facto: Collins English Dictionary
  5. de facto: Vocabulary.com
  6. De-facto, de-facto, de facto: Wordnik
  7. de facto: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. de facto: Wiktionary
  9. de facto: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. de facto: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. de facto: Dictionary.com
  12. De Facto (De Facto album), De Facto (band), De Facto, De-facto, De facto (disambiguation): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. De facto: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. de facto: Rhymezone
  15. De facto: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. De Facto: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  17. de facto: Free Dictionary
  18. de facto: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. de facto: Dictionary/thesaurus
  20. De facto: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. de facto: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

Business (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. de facto: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  6. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  7. de facto: DivorceNet.com (Annotated Divorce Law Dictionary)
  8. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  9. De facto: bizterms.net
  10. De facto: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  11. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  12. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  13. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  14. De-facto, de facto: Legal dictionary
  15. De-facto, de facto: Financial dictionary
  16. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  2. de facto: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Reactive Attachment Disorder (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. DE FACTO, DE FACTO, DE FACTO: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  3. de facto: Idioms
  4. de facto: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. de facto: Evolution Glossary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. de facto: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. de facto: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See de_factos as well.)

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.

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