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In actual use or existence, regardless of official or legal status.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- While it is largely recognized that Ukraine holds de jure sovereignty on Crimea, Russia exercises de facto administration on the peninsula.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
In actual use or existence, regardless of official or legal status.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: modal, not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: in fact, in practice, factually, practically
Antonyms: none provided
A legally undeclared spouse; a partner in a spousal relationship which is not officially declared as a marriage, comparable to a common law husband or wife.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, New-Zealand
Examples
- 2008, David de Vaus, Chapter 15: Australian Families: Social and Demographic Patterns, in Charles B. Hennon, Stephan M. Wilson (editors), Families in a Global Context, 2011, page 383, The parental rights and responsibilities of de factos are the same as for legally married parents but, because property and maintenance of de factos is a state responsibility, there are differences between married and de factos in some states.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
existing in fact whether with lawful authority or not
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- de facto segregation is as real as segregation imposed by law
- a de facto state of war
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: de jure
in reality or fact
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the result was, de facto, a one-party system
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Unadapted borrowing from Latin dē factō (literally “according to fact”), from dē (“according to”) + ablative of factum (“fact, deed, act”).
Across languages
Translations
35 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
بحكم الأمر الواقع
— in fact or in practice
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Armenian:
փաստորեն
(pʻastoren)
— in fact or in practice
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Armenian:
դե ֆակտո
(de fakto)
— in fact or in practice
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Chinese Mandarin:
事實上 /事实上
(shìshíshàng)
— in fact or in practice
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Chinese Mandarin:
實質上 /实质上
— in fact or in practice
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Corsican:
de facto
— in fact or in practice
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Corsican:
di fattu
— in fact or in practice
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Dutch:
de facto
— in fact or in practice
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Esperanto:
laŭfakte
— in fact or in practice
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Esperanto:
laŭfakta
— in fact or in practice
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Finnish:
de facto
— in fact or in practice
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Finnish:
tosiasiallisesti
— in fact or in practice
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French:
de facto
— in fact or in practice
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French:
de fait
— in fact or in practice
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Galician:
de facto
— in fact or in practice
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Galician:
de feito
— in fact or in practice
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German:
de facto
— in fact or in practice
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Greek:
εκ των πραγμάτων
(ek ton pragmáton)
— in fact or in practice
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Greek:
ντε φάκτο
(nte fákto)
— in fact or in practice
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Hindi:
सत्यानुसार
(satyānusār)
— in fact or in practice
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Ido:
aktuala
— in fact or in practice
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Japanese:
デファクト
(defakuto)
— in fact or in practice
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Japanese:
事実上の
(jijitsujō no)
— in fact or in practice
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Persian:
دفاکتو
(de-fâkto)
— in fact or in practice
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Persian:
بالفعل
(belfe'l)
— in fact or in practice
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Polish:
de facto
— in fact or in practice
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Russian:
де-фа́кто
(dɛ-fákto)
— in fact or in practice
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Russian:
факти́ческий
(faktíčeskij)
— in fact or in practice
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Spanish:
de facto
— in fact or in practice
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Spanish:
de fecho (desus.)
— in fact or in practice
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Spanish:
de hecho
— in fact or in practice
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Swedish:
de facto
— in fact or in practice
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Turkish:
defakto
— in fact or in practice
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Turkish:
fiilen
— in fact or in practice
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Turkish:
fiilî
— in fact or in practice
