illegal
noun/ɪˈliːɡl/
/ɪˈliːɡl/
(especially North American English, disapproving, often offensive)- a person who lives or works in a country illegallyTopics Social issuesc2Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French illégal or medieval Latin illegalis, from Latin in- ‘not’ + legalis ‘according to the law’.
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