adjectiveˌɛkstrəˈliːɡ(ə)lˌɛkstrəˈliɡəl
(of an action or situation) beyond the province of the law.
there were extralegal means through which to render the NAACP impotent
Example sentencesExamples
- Furthermore, the elders never gave any indication of being aware that their actions were extralegal, if not illegal.
- The side effect is an extralegal economy; for example, the ‘construction industry’ was slumping in Peru, yet concrete was being sold at a record rate because of the extralegal construction going on.
- Its participants drew on an American tradition of collective organization and crowd action which held extralegal activity to be legitimate when justice was otherwise elusive.
- The main extralegal means of tenure is squatting.
- These were extralegal considerations, irrelevant, impure.
adjectiveˌekstrəˈlēɡəlˌɛkstrəˈliɡəl
(of an action or situation) beyond the authority of the law; not regulated by the law.
there were extralegal means through which to render the NAACP impotent
Example sentencesExamples
- Furthermore, the elders never gave any indication of being aware that their actions were extralegal, if not illegal.
- These were extralegal considerations, irrelevant, impure.
- The side effect is an extralegal economy; for example, the ‘construction industry’ was slumping in Peru, yet concrete was being sold at a record rate because of the extralegal construction going on.
- Its participants drew on an American tradition of collective organization and crowd action which held extralegal activity to be legitimate when justice was otherwise elusive.
- The main extralegal means of tenure is squatting.