Definition: 1. Make legal. 2. Show or affirm to be just and legitimate. 3. Make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone). 4. Of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful. 5. In accordance with reason or logic.
Use 'legitimate' in a sentence:
1. The global "currency wars" are likely here to stay, due to the fine line between legitimate monetary balancing and sometimes self-serving trade manipulation.
2. A trademark submitted for registration shall bear noticeable characteristics and be readily distinguishable, and it may not conflict with the legitimate rights obtained by others earlier.
3. But what does legitimate mean?
4. Educational activities are fundamentally social activities to protect the legitimate rights of children.
5. We want to legitimate this process by passing a law.
6. The Chinese side also has some legitimate complaints.
7. We only married in order that the child should be legitimate.
8. Some of that is legitimate.
9. Is this a legitimate worry?
10. Make folk finance legitimate; Legal Analysis of Legitimate Expectation.
11. The "children" referred to in this Law include legitimate children, illegitimate children and adopted children, as well as step-children who supported or were supported by the decedent.
12. The State protects the legitimate rights and interests of developers.
13. The New York Times has a legitimate claim to be a national newspaper.
14. I've had it before, the sense that even in the course of my most legitimate and daily actions—peeling a banana, brushing my teeth—I am trespassing.
15. Politicians are legitimate targets for satire.
16. Sickness is a legitimate reason for asking for leave.
17. Experts believe there is a relationship between adult abuse of legitimate medicines and the drug culture that has swept our country.
18. That's a legitimate question.
19. Legitimate rights and interests, often to be violated.
20. Most doctors appear to recognize homeopathy as a legitimate form of medicine.
21. "This is legitimate," Algan says.
22. The government said that it has suspended all aid to Haiti until that country's legitimate government is restored.
23. There are legitimate USES of this API.
24. The construction of legitimate legal procedure through institution is human being's rational selection.
25. The role of Parliament became one of legitimating the measures put before it.
26. Time-replayed packets, preventing them from swamping legitimate data traffic.
27. China took the move in hope of safeguarding the legitimate rights of Chinese enterprises, as well as to support the multilateral trading system and the authority and effectiveness of the WTO.
28. Is the drone "pilot" who clocks off after a day's work a legitimate target for those he has been hunting down?
29. They had a legitimate grievance.
30. Such concerns are legitimate.
31. "Cayman takes advantage of a legitimate loophole—and the financial system is none the weaker for it," says one regulator in Europe.
32. There can never be any legitimate basis for police officers to fit up suspects they 'know' to be guilty.
33. "I think this is a very legitimate concern, and I appreciate their drawing our attention to it," David Hill, a father of five, says.
34. All these were disadvantage to the legitimate foundation of the government.
35. Organizations have had legitimate and pressing reasons to shift to a new paradigm of employer-employee relations.
36. In effect, the White House claimed that it could invalidate any otherwise legitimate state law that it disagrees with.
37. His business operations are perfectly legitimate.
38. This is wholly legitimate.
39. Shanghai stock Exchange is the sole legitimate pattern in 1946-1949.
40. I think this is a very legitimate concern, and I appreciated their drawing our attention to it.
41. As Nature has pointed out before, there are some legitimate concerns about how science prizes—both new and old—are distributed.
42. The malpractices of false advertising and pricing fraud have damaged the legitimate rights and interests of students and their parents and disrupted the orderly market competition.
43. Recreating a deceased famous actor or actress may violate their legitimate rights.
44. Ottawa and Washington have to find a delicate balance between the free flow of commerce and legitimate security concerns.
45. We must not shrink from the legitimate use of force if we are to remain credible.
46. The empire could not cohere as a legitimate whole.
47. Of course, in many instances there are legitimate reasons for joint ventures; clearly, White and minority enterprises can team up to acquire business that neither could acquire alone.
48. Many doctors recognize homeopathy as a legitimate form of medicine.
49. Is his business strictly legitimate?
50. It seemed a perfectly legitimate question.
51. That's a perfectly legitimate fear.
52. The government will not seek to disrupt the legitimate business activities of the defendant.
53. The French government has condemned the coup in Haiti and has demanded the restoration of the legitimate government.
54. The stores have all the hallmarks of a legitimate Apple outlet, completing with glossy hardwood tables and minimalist staircases.
55. The threat of bankruptcy is a legitimate tool to extract money from them.
56. The list would largely be accurate, the concern legitimate.
