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LEGAL AGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does legal age mean?
• LEGAL AGE (noun)
The noun LEGAL AGE has 1 sense:
1. the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs
Familiarity information: LEGAL AGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
legal age; majority
Hypernyms ("legal age" is a kind of...):
age; eld (a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises)
Holonyms ("legal age" is a part of...):
adulthood; maturity (the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed)
Context examples
A person of legal age to consent to a procedure as specifed by local regulation.
(Legal Adult, NCI Thesaurus)
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