Usually means: Conforming to established laws and regulations.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word legal:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. legal: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. legal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. legal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. legal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. legal: Vocabulary.com
  6. Legal, legal: Wordnik
  7. legal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Legal, legal: Wiktionary
  9. legal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. legal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. legal: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Legal (Gal Costa album), Legal (Special Ed album), Legal (constituency), Legal (disambiguation), Legal (song), Legal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Legal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. legal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. legal: Rhymezone
  16. legal, legal, legal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. legal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. legal: Free Dictionary
  19. legal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. legal: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. legal: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  22. legal: Dictionary.com
  23. legal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  24. legal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. legal: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. LEGAL: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. legal: Legal dictionary
  9. legal: Financial dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. legal: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. legal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. legal: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. LEGAL: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. legal: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Relating to the law or to lawyers.
adjective:  Having its basis in the law.
adjective:  Being established, permitted, required or prescribed by law.
adjective:  Following the rules or syntax of a system, such as a game or a programming language.
adjective:  (informal) Above the age of consent or the legal drinking age.
adjective:  Permitting the use and/or sale of cannabis; in which cannabis is lawful.
adjective:  (US, Canada) (of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 14 in (215.9 mm × 355.6 mm) (also legal-size).
noun:  (uncountable, informal) The legal department of a company.
noun:  (uncountable, US, Canada) Paper in sheets 8½ in × 14 in (215.9 mm × 355.6 mm).
noun:  (countable) A spy who is attached to, and ostensibly employed by, an embassy, military outpost, etc.
noun:  (countable, informal, US) Somebody who immigrated lawfully.
noun:  A town in Alberta, Canada

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