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Definition: Extralegal |
ExtralegalAdjective1. Not regulated or sanctioned by law; "there were only extralegal recourses for their grievances". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: ExtralegalSynonym: nonlegal (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Extralegal |
| English words defined with "extralegal": nonlegal. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Extralegal" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (extralegal), Spanish (extralegal). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Ghana | In July the Government resumed an investigation into the substance of a tape publicized in October 1999 that appeared to implicate President Rawlings in several infamous extralegal actions of the predemocratic era. (references) |
Yemen | However, the decline in the number of such incidents from 1999 continued, and most individual journalists and the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate agree that extralegal governmental harassment is less of a problem than it was in the past. (references) | |
Economic History | Georgia | It is hoped that this will reduce the need for civil servants to seek extralegal payments from businesses. (references) |
Human Rights | Turkey | The extralegal aspects of the transaction fueled speculation that some weapons may have disappeared. (references) |
Trade | Guatemala | A number of informal, extralegal financial institutions operate independent of any government supervision. (references) |
Women | Cameroon | In cases of sexual assault, a victim's family or village often imposed direct, summary punishment on the suspected perpetrator through extralegal means ranging from destruction of property to beating. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Extralegal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Extralegal" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "extralegal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Portuguese | extralegal. (various references) | |
Spanish | extralegal. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | непередбачений законом. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "extralegal": extralegally. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "extralegal" (pronounced e'kstrulē"gul) |
| 7 | -r u l ē" g u l | paralegal. |
| 5 | -l ē" g u l | illegal, legal. |
| 4 | -ē" g u l | beagle, eagle, Spiegel, regal. |
| 3 | -g u l | algal, angle, antifungal, bagel, bangle, bedraggle, boggle, Bogle, boondoggle, bugle, centrifugal, commingle, conjugal, dangle, Dingle, disentangle, entangle, finagle, frugal, fungal, gaggle, giggle, goggle, gurgle, haggle, Spangle, squiggle, straggle, strangle, struggle, swingle, tangle, Ingle, intermingle, jangle, jiggle, jingle, juggle, jungle, Kugel, madrigal, Mangel, mangle, milligal, mingle, mogul, mongol, Ogle, prodigal, rectangle, shingle, single, smuggle, snuggle, tingle, toggle, triangle, untangle, wangle, wiggle, wrangle, wriggle. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-g-l-l-r-t-x" | |
-3 letters: alleger, exalter, galeate, gallate, galleta, lateral, tallage. | |
-4 letters: aerate, aglare, alegar, allege, eaglet, elater, ergate, galeae, galere, gallet, gelate, laager, legate, regale, reglet, relate, retell, taller, telega, teller, tergal. | |
-5 letters: agate, aglee, aglet, agree, alate, alert, algae, algal, allee, altar, alter, areae, areal, arete, argal, argle, artal, artel, eager, eagle, eagre, eater, egret. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-g-l-l-r-t-x" | |
+2 letters: extralegally. | |
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