Definition of "legal-size" []

• Being a sheet of paper that measures approximately 8 1/2 by 14 inches. (adjective)
• Designed to hold such sheets of paper: a legal-size envelope. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Ask for his blueprint for Detroit, and Mr. Rapson points to a dizzying, hand-drawn diagram on legal-size paper that he keeps behind his desk."
• "And because my lined, yellow, legal-size pages of notes—the color now faded and the staple that holds them together rusted and disintegrating—fairly dance, through no effort of my own, with his prickly personality and fine mind."
• "She pulled the legal-size piece of paper out of her leather briefcase and stared at it."