legitimate source

collocation in English

meaningsoflegitimateandsource

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legitimate
adjective
uk
/ləˈdʒɪt.ə.mət/us
/ləˈdʒɪt̬.ə.mət/
allowed ...
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source
noun[C]
uk
/sɔːs/us
/sɔːrs/
the place something comes from or starts at, or the cause ...
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(Definition oflegitimateandsourcefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It appears to have reinvented itself as a credible andlegitimatesourceof policy leadership.
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The legislature is taken to be thelegitimatesourceof this type of law.
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As regards the availability of barbiturates, we must remember that most of these pills originally come from alegitimatesourcein this country.
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The other matter which would appear to be alegitimatesourcefor criticism is the question of spare parts.
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The electoral register is alegitimatesourceof information which is already in the public domain.
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The police were satisfied that all their information came from alegitimatesource.
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In certain places they are alegitimatesourceof revenue often wanted at the present moment by those people.
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Can environmental violation be alegitimatesourceof competitiveness?
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What is alegitimatesourceof profit and what is not?
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It will be practically painless and will be alegitimatesourceof revenue.
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The unresolved conflict of interests remains alegitimatesourceof concern that extends well beyond our own country.
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It has been alegitimatesourceof complaint that the coverage of the allowance was unclear and too restrictive.
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It could be alegitimatesourceof taxation provided its effect was considered in relation to other factors and it could be more beneficial than some of the older taxes.
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That is nolegitimatesourceof complaint.
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What an extraordinary argument, that because a thing that everybody uses, and most people want, will stand a high tax, therefore it is alegitimatesourceof revenue.
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We have not got it back so far as war material and employment is concerned, and that is alegitimatesourceof grievance in the country.
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There have been cases of vehicle suspension units collapsing because fake wishbones supplied through what seemed to be alegitimatesourcethen turned out to be counterfeit.
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