legals
- 1Plural of legal.
The newspaper printed the legals near the back, beside the classified ads.
The clerk stamped and dated each of the legals before returning them.
Note
Only some meanings of legal take this plural. The department and the paper size are uncountable: you send a contract to legal and print it on legal. The countable nouns pluralize freely, so legals can be spies ostensibly employed by an embassy or military outpost, or, in informal US use, people who immigrated lawfully. The adjective, meaning relating to the law, never takes -s.
legals is a form of legal
legal, noun: The department within a company or other organization that handles legal matters, such as contracts and disputes. Full entry
- Forms
- legallegals plural
- Spelling
- legal → legals: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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