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legitimate excuse

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meanings of legitimateand excuse


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legitimate
adjective
uk /ləˈdʒɪt.ə.mət/ us /ləˈdʒɪt̬.ə.mət/
allowed ...
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excuse
noun[C]
uk /ɪkˈskjuːs/ us /ɪkˈskjuːs/
a reason that you give to explain why you did ...
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Examples of legitimate excuse


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It has a perfectly legitimateexcuse for not declaring dividends, namely, that it is absorbing every penny of its profits into its business.
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Can there be any legitimateexcuse for the existence of these islands?
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Both parties, when coming to face this issue, have used the legitimateexcuse that we are either in a crisis or coming out of one.
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We talk about human error as though it were a legitimateexcuse.
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To date private sector landlords have had a legitimateexcuse.
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There is no legitimateexcuse for the kind of errors which can create the situations such as we have seen.
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Of course, small firms have an excuse, sometimes a legitimateexcuse, that they are not able to afford their own training schemes.
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The perfectly legitimateexcuse given for this action was the existence of a national emergency.
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It may have been a legitimateexcuse at one time that we could not find the staff, but that is no excuse at this moment.
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It might be expensive and, administratively, it is inconvenient, but the sole legitimateexcuse for party cars is the fact that, otherwise, there are people who could not vote.
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The opponent bears the burden of moving for relief from its failure to respond and providing a legitimateexcuse for why it did not respond earlier.
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There are, of course, two legitimate excuses for this state of things.
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Perhaps one's ignorance, or immorality, poverty or even diseases are legitimate excuses, but not the matters that we have no control over.
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