Definitions for legals

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legals le·gal

Spelling: [lee-guh l]

IPA: /ˈli gəl/

Legals is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 88 anagrams from letters in legals (aeglls).

Definitions for legals

noun

1. a person who acts in a legal manner or with legal authority.
2. an alien who has entered a country legally.
3. a person whose status is protected by law.
4. a fish or game animal, within specified size or weight limitations, that the law allows to be caught and kept during an appropriate season.
5. a foreigner who conducts espionage against a host country while working there in a legitimate capacity, often in the diplomatic service.
6. legals, authorized investments that may be made by fiduciaries, as savings banks or trustees.

adjective

1. permitted by law; lawful:
2. of or relating to law; connected with the law or its administration:
3. appointed, established, or authorized by law; deriving authority from law.
4. recognized by law rather than by equity.
5. of, relating to, or characteristic of the profession of law or of lawyers:
6. Theology. of or relating to the Mosaic Law. of or relating to the doctrine that salvation is gained by good works rather than through free grace.

Origin of legals

1490-1500; Latin lēgālis of the law, equivalent to lēg- (stem of lēx) law + -ālis -al¹

Examples for legals

Scrip was useless to them, and the legals were raiding all cargoes destined for Wayne's section.

His final sight was that of the legals and Municipals wildly scrambling for cover from each other.

The Municipal forces were rushing up toward the dome, and surprised legals were frantically arriving in trucks.

"Yeah, the legals want the Crusader for their propaganda," he said wearily.

Most of them belonged to Nick the Croop, who had apparently decided the legals would win.

The legals simply came boiling down the street, equipped with long pikes with lead-weighted ends.

Used that, with a bit of my old reputation, to get your Mayor Gannett to give me the same from the legals.

Pick out any place you want, train them to handle those damned legals the way Murdoch handled the Stonewall boys.

The legals had never quite reached the front of the building, obviously, and were now cut into sections.