Usually means: In accordance with established laws.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word lawfully:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. lawfully: Merriam-Webster
  2. lawfully: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lawfully: Collins English Dictionary
  4. lawfully: Vocabulary.com
  5. Lawfully, lawfully: Wordnik
  6. lawfully: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. lawfully: Wiktionary
  8. lawfully: Dictionary.com
  9. lawfully: Rhymezone
  10. lawfully: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. lawfully: FreeDictionary.org
  12. lawfully: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. lawfully: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lawfully: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. lawfully: Legal dictionary

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▸ adverb:  Conforming to the law; legally.

Similar:
licitly, legitimately, legally, de jure, wrongfully, statutorily, statutably, conformingly, conformably, legit, more...

Opposite:
illegally, unlawfully, illicitly, criminally

Phrases:
lawfully begotten, more...

Adjectives:
own, right, first, ninth, lawful

Colors:
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Similar:
licitly, legitimately, legally, de jure, wrongfully, statutorily, statutably, conformingly, conformably, legit, more...

Opposite:
illegally, unlawfully, illicitly, criminally

Phrases:
lawfully begotten, more...

Adjectives:
own, right, first, ninth, lawful

Colors:
    midnight blue,     royal blue,     indigo,     slate gray,     charcoal, more...



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