Usually means: Not in accordance with law.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word illegally:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. illegally: Merriam-Webster
  2. illegally: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. illegally: Collins English Dictionary
  4. illegally: Vocabulary.com
  5. Illegally, illegally: Wordnik
  6. illegally: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. illegally: Wiktionary
  8. Illegally, illegally: Dictionary.com
  9. illegally: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Illegally: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. illegally: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. illegally: Rhymezone
  13. Illegally: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. illegally: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. illegally: FreeDictionary.org
  16. illegally: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. illegally: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. illegally: Medical dictionary

(Note: See illegal as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (illegally)

▸ adverb:  In a manner contrary to law.

Similar:
lawlessly, illicitly, unlawfully, illegitimately, clandestinely, forbiddenly, extralegally, criminally, criminously, unauthorizedly, more...

Opposite:
legally, lawfully, legitimately

Types:
contraband, smuggling, bootlegging, trafficking, black market, more...

Phrases:
take illegally, Illegally Yours, resell illegally, obtain illegally, took illegally, more...



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Similar:
lawlessly, illicitly, unlawfully, illegitimately, clandestinely, forbiddenly, extralegally, criminally, criminously, unauthorizedly, more...

Opposite:
legally, lawfully, legitimately

Types:
contraband, smuggling, bootlegging, trafficking, black market, more...

Phrases:
take illegally, Illegally Yours, resell illegally, obtain illegally, took illegally, person who takes things illegally, illegally copied software, sell illegally, to take property illegally, more...



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