I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a legitimate grievance (= one that is reasonable )
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Many people feel that the rebels have a legitimate grievance.
a legitimate target (= one that it is fair to attack )
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The rebels claimed that trains carrying soldiers are a legitimate target.
a legitimate/valid excuse (= one that is true and that other people cannot criticize )
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He didn’t have a legitimate excuse for being late.
a valid/legitimate reason (= a good and acceptable reason )
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An employer can’t fire someone without a valid reason.
legitimate expectations legal (= expectations based on someone's legal rights )
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The men have legitimate expectations of a fair hearing.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
perfectly
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The Bucharest police force sees its action as perfectly legitimate .
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Or was there a perfectly legitimate explanation?
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Elwood was carried off after a perfectly legitimate but massive hit delivered by the Springbok centre.
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But when the culprits were identified, it turned out that their activities were perfectly legitimate , if a little unusual.
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It is perfectly legitimate for the police to have that information.
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This may be perfectly legitimate but not all problems can be referred away. 2 Refer the parents for marriage guidance counselling.
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This is a perfectly legitimate inductive inference.
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Their function is to supply realism or local colour, and for these purposes their use is perfectly legitimate .
quite
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For quite legitimate reasons, later commentators have often left the problem aside.
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A meeting which just airs views is quite legitimate but every one present should be aware of it.
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And I also know that certain shops in Northern Ireland refused to display it because of the tricolour so that accusation is quite legitimate .
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Both these purposes are quite legitimate .
■ NOUN
authority
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To the extent that legitimate authorities have power over us, the pre-emption thesis governs our right attitude to them.
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Part of the state's legitimate authority rested on this acknowledgement and it was built into its hegemonic structure and consensus.
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Power is legitimate authority in that it is generally accepted as just and proper by members of society as a whole.
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It is an account of legitimate authority , whereas the phrase is often used to refer to defacto authorities.
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Ours is an attempt to explain the notion of legitimate authority through describing what one might call an ideal exercise of authority.
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According to Weber, the claims to legitimate authority are based on one or more of the following grounds: 1.
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But naturally not even legitimate authorities always succeed, nor do they always try to live up to the ideal.
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It means to believe that one has legitimate authority , or that that person has authority over one.
business
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The newsletter says institutions should satisfy themselves that funds held on behalf of public figures stem from legitimate business .
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I mean, since this is a legitimate business and all.
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In the case of the rent and electricity we can assume these are legitimate business expenses.
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I should have guessed you'd have a legitimate business .
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The reasons for this we consider to be legitimate business affairs.
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They too now see he is a man with whom no legitimate business can be done.
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He did this for money, and because he was too coarse and stupid to survive in the world of legitimate business .
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But there seemed no one about who was not already occupied with his own legitimate business .
claim
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Such families would therefore have no legitimate claim to nursery provisions and other facilities.
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They missed the opportunity, but they gained what some would later consider to be a legitimate claim to intervention.
concern
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However, legitimate concern about improvement must be tempered by the countless instances when communication certainly is effective.
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But Dan has a legitimate concern about depth in center field.
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These they see as legitimate concerns for those working in health.
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When you permit these legitimate concerns to spill over into your work performance, your career often suffers.
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Now, there are also legitimate concerns about the quality of our civil service.
expectation
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I think that the case is based upon what nowadays would be described as a legitimate expectation of being heard.
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Lord Denning M.R. stated that where there was no legitimate expectation of being heard there was no requirement for a hearing.
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This legitimate expectation was recognized only in public law and not in private law.
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Here the individual might have a legitimate expectation that the licence would be renewed.
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He has probably thus created a legitimate expectation that he will continue to apply this policy.
expectations
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The language of rights, legitimate expectations or privileges should not be elevated to any higher status.
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Decisions still emerge which are redolent of the pre-1964 era, such as those which manipulate the distinction between rights and legitimate expectations .
grievance
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The misconception, however, is that once a legitimate grievance has been dealt with, the violence will end.
heir
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No, she may give me her money and my legitimate heir , and that is all.
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In all three cases the Church seems to have been trying to prevent lords from siting legitimate heirs .
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And so at last, though not happily nor of one mind, Lachlan was named as the legitimate heir of Duart.
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She is usually noble-born, and crucially, she alone is allowed to bear legitimate heirs .
interest
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But I do think that we are becoming more involved in the Livesey affair than our legitimate interest justifies.
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Payne had trouble distinguishing between those with legitimate interests and those without.
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The public may be interested in whether a bid is made, but it has no legitimate interest to defend.
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The pharmaceutical industry had a legitimate interest in seeing that their own branded drugs were prescribed.
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In determining what is a legitimate interest the librarian can safely rely upon one guide only - the law of the land.
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Until it does so, the Government can not defend the Scotch Whisky Industry's legitimate interests . 7.
means
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Thirdly, ritualism, abandoning the goals but sticking rigidly to the legitimate means of achieving them.
reason
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But the jury accepted that a page of the statement had been substituted for legitimate reasons .
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He or she is trying to find legitimate reasons not to allow you to speak with Mr Smith.
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For quite legitimate reasons , later commentators have often left the problem aside.
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None of the legitimate reasons for the artificial Wednesbury sense of the term apply here.
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There were legitimate reasons , of course, to build a fair number of those thousands of dams.
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Similarly, shyness is constantly invoked as a legitimate reason for failure to do something.
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Others will continue to have legitimate reason to visit Prague.
right
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Universities were genuinely held to have little legitimate right to say how this should be done.
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This is not about depriving people accused of crimes of their legitimate rights , including the presumption of innocence.
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Authority is the legitimate right to exercise power.
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The pharmaceutical companies that were taken to task by Elliott have a legitimate right to protect their intellectual property.
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And no murderer can enjoy legitimate rights to the fruits of murder.
target
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Basil used his weapons with restraint and on legitimate targets .
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For those sixty seconds you are not a legitimate target , nor can you fire your own weapon.
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The Unita rebel movement claimed responsibility for the attack, saying that the train was carrying munitions and was a legitimate target .
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There is no excuse, no nods and winks, no legitimate targets .
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There are no legitimate targets , be they members of the security forces or civilians.
use
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Does the concept of fideism have any coherent and legitimate use in a postmodern world?
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Along with the legitimate uses of force, there may be abuses.
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Certain types of knives that have no legitimate use - such as flick, gravity and butterfly knives - are banned.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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legitimate business operations
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a legitimate reason
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At least three of the dead woman's relatives have a legitimate claim to her house.
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He had a legitimate reason for being late.
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He is a criminal who runs a legitimate business as well.
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How can I be sure that an on-line business is legitimate ?
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It is legitimate to suggest that taxes should affect people with higher incomes more than they affect poorer people.
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Safety is an obvious and legitimate concern.
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The legitimate government was overthrown in a coup.
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The government has refused to recognise the far-right group as a legitimate political party.
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The way governments treat their people is a legitimate concern for the international community.
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Tobacco smuggling into the UK is seriously affecting the profits of legitimate importers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A meeting which just airs views is quite legitimate but every one present should be aware of it.
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Along with the legitimate uses of force, there may be abuses.
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At about the same time, his two legitimate sons died of the plague.
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Surely these are all legitimate stratagems for the diarist-and using them would be a pardonable offence.
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The problem is, only one of the companies apparently holds legitimate patent rights to the breakthrough.
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Thus the masses have in different ways become legitimate candidates for underdevelopment and misery.
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To express constructive criticism and voice well researched concerns is of course healthy and legitimate .
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Whether or not they were legitimate , many children failed to survive their early critical years.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Liberal democracy has been concerned most explicitly with legitimating the power of the state, or public power.
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The role of Parliament became largely but not wholly one of legitimating the measures put before it.