English-Dutch translations for legitimate

• legitiem
  Lobbyen is een legitieme activiteit. Lobbying is a legitimate activity.
  En het is een legitieme vraag en legitieme bezorgdheid. The question and the concern are both legitimate.
  Ik vind ze volstrekt legitiem. I consider them entirely legitimate.
• wetmatig
  Het is wel duidelijk dat dit een zeer nuttig instrument is in ons streven om te zorgen dat het geld van de Europese burger goed en op een wetmatige en passende manier wordt besteed. It is clear that it is an incredibly useful instrument in our work to ensure that EU citizens' money is managed well and in a legitimate and appropriate manner.

Definition of legitimate

• In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements
• Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid
• Authentic, real, genuine
• Lawfully begotten, i.e., born to a legally married couple.
• Relating to hereditary rights
• A person born to a legally married couple
• To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; especially, to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means.

Examples

• legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard or method
• legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions

Related words

• illegitimate
• legitimately
• delegitimate
• nonlegitimate
• legitimate self-defense
• illegitimate child
• monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force