legal repercussions

collocation in English

meaningsoflegalandrepercussion

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legal
adjective
uk
/ˈliː.ɡəl/us
/ˈliː.ɡəl/
connected with ...
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repercussion
noun[C usually plural]
uk
/ˌriː.pəˈkʌʃ.ən/us
/ˌriː.pɚˈkʌʃ.ən/
the effect that an action, event, or decision has on something, especially a ...
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(Definition oflegalandrepercussionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflegal repercussions

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Professionals, fearing the legal repercussions presumed to be associated with disclosure of mistakes, avoid honest discussion with patients and families about what occurred.
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To analyze the medical legal repercussions of the requests for preoperative investigations.
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Arrest records show that the city's rapidly growing poorer population alone suffered the legal repercussions of this activity in which, other sources show us, both rich and poor avidly participated.
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Usual responses to mistakes include silence or discounting, denial and "coverup" if possible, and then blame and even legal repercussions if the "code of silence" is broken.
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We therefore need to study its economic and legal repercussions in detail.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
This exiling should be supported even if, and particularly because, it still has legal repercussions today.
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There were no legal repercussions on any of those occasions.
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The production of the show has also inferred that there might be some legal repercussions to her decision because of the contract each contestant signed.
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She extorts them for money to avoid legal repercussions and jail.
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Judges are not required to give an entire account of their rationale behind decisions, and are shielded against public scrutiny and protected from legal repercussions.
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Rafa symbolizes all the individuals who never made it across the border on part of the coyotes, physical exhaustion, limited knowledge of successful passage and legal repercussions.
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