1 (lawfully) legítimamente ...a government which has been legitimately elected The manufacturers insisted they had acted legitimately, believing the parts were for a petro-chemical project Companies can legitimately add sunscreen ingredients to a traditional moisturizer and make anti-aging claims for it
2 (justifiably) [+expect] justificadamente he can legitimately expect compensation These are skills which you can legitimately expect your company to assist you in obtaining
you could legitimately argue that ... sería justo or estaría justificado argumentar que ...; he can legitimately claim to speak for all South Africans tiene sobradas razones para erigirse en portavoz de todos los sudafricanos
Asylum seekers from Bulgaria and Romania can no longer legitimately claim political persecution one can legitimately ask oneself /whether it was worth the struggle/
he has demanded, quite legitimately, that ... ha exigido, con toda la razón, que ...
she uses sex [quite] legitimately to publicise herself There is much in this theory that can quite legitimately be questioned
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