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Extralegal

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Not permitted or governed by law.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. occurring outside the law; not governed by law; lawless

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Being beyond or outside of the domain of law: sometimes used in the sense of illegal.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. not regulated or sanctioned by law

Word Usage

"WASHINGTON Reuters - The United States has urged China to stop what it called the "extralegal" detention and abduction of leading lawyers and human rights activists, the State Department said Tuesday."

Equivalent

illegal

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Eagle Segal beagle eagle illegal

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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