legal age Meaning of "legal age"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs

Usage(s):

  1. The legal age for girls to marry tends to be very young.
  2. Keen wit and undeniable ability kept Unser Anton on active service long past the legal age for retirement.
  3. The answer is that Hernandez was guilty of statutory rapeintercourse with a girl who is under the legal age of consent.
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