Legitimate in a sentence as a verb

I shudder to think of how much its existence costs legitimate business in this country every single year.

It's two orders of magnitude more volatile than a legitimate currency pair like the Dollar/Euro.

When a legitimate gambler has a token of that value eaten by a machine, they don't just let it go and move on to another machine.

There's almost no legitimate use case for them other than creating pretend currencies that make people hit the skinner box lever harder and spend more money.

As a commenter pointed out, other legitimate cases for reimplementing this in js would be when you can't afford to or don't want to fork a process to run find/xargs/sed.

If you're the kind of person who sees programming languages as mere tools --- and I think that's a totally legitimate perspective, personally --- you might find Golang very pleasant to use. I don't know that Golang is a great language, but it is an extremely well-designed tool.

Legitimate in a sentence as an adjective

If one ethno-religious group gets the majority over another, the losing group doesn't see the government as legitimate.

Is duration-of-residence a legitimate basis for such strong civic discrimination rooted in law?

The decision protects innovators such as Google while upholding in every fundamental the legitimate interests of copyright holders.

It is always a trade-off between optimum investor protections and practical limitations on such protections in the name of letting legitimate capital formation get done.

Gabriele seems to believe or hope that the masses will see his "repost" of his own app and be stricken by the desire to do the ethically right thing and uninstall all of the rushed clones and install the legitimate version and play it with all the fervor and excitement as if the global 2048 hype still currently existed.

Legitimate definitions

verb

make legal; "Marijuana should be legalized"

See also: legalize legalise decriminalize decriminalise legitimize legitimise legitimatize legitimatise

verb

show or affirm to be just and legitimate

verb

make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone); "They legitimized their natural child"

adjective

of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful

adjective

based on known statements or events or conditions; "rain was a logical expectation, given the time of year"

See also: logical

adjective

in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles; "legitimate advertising practices"

adjective

authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law; "a legitimate government"

See also: lawful licit