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"forms": [
{
"form": "legal names",
"tags": [
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]
}
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"expansion": "legal name (plural legal names)",
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "89 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
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"Entry maintenance"
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},
{
"_dis": "84 16",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Onomastics",
"orig": "en:Onomastics",
"parents": [
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"Names",
"Language",
"Social sciences",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Communication",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
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"examples": [
{
"text": "He signs his name \"Johnny Reb Smith\", but his legal name is \"Jean-Marie Smith\"."
}
],
"glosses": [
"The name of a natural person recognized on official records, especially as recorded on a birth certificate or as changed by legal process."
],
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"natural person",
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],
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"official",
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"record",
"record"
],
[
"birth certificate",
"birth certificate"
],
[
"legal",
"legal"
],
[
"process",
"process"
]
]
},
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "The legal name of \"Jack's Mattresses\" is \"JM Enterprises {2006} (Illinois) Inc.\"."
}
],
"glosses": [
"The name of an organisation as indicated in its founding documents, or as subsequently changed by legal process."
],
"id": "en-legal_name-en-noun-8u6aHYHA",
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"organisation",
"organisation"
],
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"founding",
"founding"
],
[
"document",
"document"
],
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"legal",
"legal"
],
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"process",
"process"
]
]
}
],
"word": "legal name"
}
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
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"en:Onomastics"
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"examples": [
{
"text": "He signs his name \"Johnny Reb Smith\", but his legal name is \"Jean-Marie Smith\"."
}
],
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"The name of a natural person recognized on official records, especially as recorded on a birth certificate or as changed by legal process."
],
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[
"name",
"name"
],
[
"natural person",
"natural person"
],
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"record",
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"birth certificate",
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"legal",
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{
"text": "The legal name of \"Jack's Mattresses\" is \"JM Enterprises {2006} (Illinois) Inc.\"."
}
],
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"The name of an organisation as indicated in its founding documents, or as subsequently changed by legal process."
],
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"organisation",
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"legal",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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