Usually means: Outside or beyond established legal norms.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word extralegal:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. extralegal: Merriam-Webster
  2. extralegal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. extralegal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. extralegal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. extralegal: Vocabulary.com
  6. extralegal: Wordnik
  7. extralegal: Wiktionary
  8. extralegal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. extralegal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. extralegal: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. extralegal: Dictionary.com
  12. extralegal: Rhymezone
  13. extralegal: FreeDictionary.org
  14. extralegal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. extralegal: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. extralegal: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. extralegal: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. extralegal: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extralegal: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (extralegal)

▸ adjective:  Occurring outside the law; not governed by law; lawless.

Similar:
illegal, nonlegal, Lawless, rulesless, ruleless, unlawyered, anarchic, wide open, justiceless, ungoverned, more...

Opposite:
legal, lawful, legitimate

Types:
vigilante, lynch mob, posse, more...

Phrases:
extralegal takeover, more...

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Similar:
illegal, nonlegal, Lawless, rulesless, ruleless, unlawyered, anarchic, wide open, justiceless, ungoverned, more...

Opposite:
legal, lawful, legitimate

Types:
vigilante, lynch mob, posse, more...

Phrases:
extralegal takeover, more...



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