English-Finnish translations for de facto

• de facto
• tosiasiallisesti
  On myönnettävä, että perustamissopimukset muodostavat tosiasiallisesti perustuslakimme. Let us recognise that de facto they form our constitution.
  Komissio kuitenkin johtaa meitä tosiasiallisesti kohti tätä päämäärää. And yet this is the objective towards which it is leading us de facto.
  Afganistanissa Karzain hallituksen hallussa on tosiasiallisesti vain Kabulin kaupunki. In Afghanistan itself, the Karzai government enjoys de facto power only in Kabul.

Definition of de facto

• In practice; in actual use or existence, regardless of official or legal status
• In fact or in practice; in actual use or existence, regardless of official or legal status. (Often opposed to
• A legally undeclared spouse; a partner in a spousal relationship which is not officially declared as a marriage, comparable to a common law husband or wife

Examples

• Although the United States currently has no official language, it is largely monolingual with English being the de facto national language.

Related words

• de facto standard
• despite the fact that
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