quasi-legal
- a word derived from legal.
Example Sentences
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A 1990 law lets the Secretary of Homeland Security provide quasi-legal status to migrants if they can’t safely return to their home countries because of armed conflicts, natural disasters, or other “extraordinary and temporary conditions.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
SafeSport, though chartered by Congress and acting as a quasi-legal agency, does not have the authority to compel the hotel to turn over the surveillance video.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2023
A weird thing about running a tech company is that if you are very successful, at some point you will also be operating a vast quasi-legal system.
From The Verge ● Jun. 24, 2020
My favorite is the rare quasi-legal term “adjudged,” as in, when something is adjudged to be a foul, which means that it probably wasn’t.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 2, 2019
There was no foundation for this view in positive law, but it appears from time to time in non-legal and quasi-legal writings.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 by Various
