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Definition of "semilegal" []

  • Of partial or questionable legality. (adjective)

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Use "semilegal" in a sentence
  • "For $25, you can visit a "semilegal" firing range in Cambodia. $135 gets you a 2 hour course in gladiator school in Rome."
  • "In the 1910s, semilegal vice commissions were formed in virtually every major city with the goal of the “absolute annihilation of the Social Evil.”"
  • "A pioneer of rural development, it had been at the front line of the semilegal town-and-village enterprise movement in the 1980s that went on to become a driving force of the national economy."