LEGAL RESIDENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does legal residence mean? 

• LEGAL RESIDENCE (noun)
  The noun LEGAL RESIDENCE has 1 sense:

1. (law) the residence where you have your permanent home or principal establishment and to where, whenever you are absent, you intend to return; every person is compelled to have one and only one domicile at a time

  Familiarity information: LEGAL RESIDENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEGAL RESIDENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(law) the residence where you have your permanent home or principal establishment and to where, whenever you are absent, you intend to return; every person is compelled to have one and only one domicile at a time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

domicile; legal residence

Context example:

what's his legal residence?

Hypernyms ("legal residence" is a kind of...):

abode; residence (any address at which you dwell more than temporarily)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)