how to pronounce legal

/ˈliːɡəl/

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legal is pronounced in two syllables

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video examples of legal pronunciation

An example use of legal in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… could change but the legal entity of the …”

meaning of legal

Legal means according to the law.

legal frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word legal occurs in english on average 65 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics legal can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that legal can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) people, society, and culture;