legally
/ˈliːɡəli/ adverb B1- As permitted by law; not contrary to law. · You can legally park in the lot on weekends without paying the fee, they won't ticket you.
- From a legal perspective. · Legally, I think you are covered, but there are angry guys with baseball bats outside.
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“Yet it is hard,” she sometimes thought, “that this poor man cannot come to a house, which he has legally hired, without raising all this speculation!
Now I cannot be sure of the approbation or disapprobation of a client who cannot speak, and as the object of his desire or his repugnance cannot be clearly proved to me, on account of his want of speech, my services here would be quite useless, and cannot be legally exercised.”
However, business owners quickly realized that encouraging gratuities allowed them to legally pay their staff significantly lower base wages.
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