Usually means: Conforming to established rules, regulations.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word law-abiding:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. law-abiding: Merriam-Webster
  2. law-abiding: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. law-abiding: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. law-abiding, law-abiding: Collins English Dictionary
  5. law-abiding: Vocabulary.com
  6. Law-Abiding, Law-abiding, law-abiding: Wordnik
  7. law-abiding: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. law-abiding: Wiktionary
  9. law-abiding: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. law-abiding: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. law-abiding: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Law-abiding, law-abiding: Dictionary.com
  13. law-abiding: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Law-abiding: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. law-abiding: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. law-abiding: Rhymezone
  17. Law-abiding: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. law-abiding: FreeDictionary.org
  19. law-abiding: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. law-abiding: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. law-abiding: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. law-abiding: Legal dictionary

(Note: See law-abidingness as well.)

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▸ adjective:  Obeying the laws of society; not a lawbreaker; without a criminal record.

Similar:
peaceful, lawful, orderly, observant, clean, crimeless, clean-living, crimefree, innocent, Lawless, more...

Opposite:
criminal, delinquent, rogue

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Similar:
peaceful, lawful, orderly, observant, clean, crimeless, clean-living, crimefree, innocent, Lawless, more...

Opposite:
criminal, delinquent, rogue



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