legal-size
or le·gal-sized
(of paper) measuring approximately 8½ × 14 inches (22 × 36 centimeters).
(of office supplies and equipment) made for holding legal-size sheets of paper: legal-size file folders.
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How to use legal-size in a sentence
Does the City allow rebuilding or insist on lot consolidation to legal size, leaving only some winners and many losers?
How Will the Tri-State Area Rebuild After Sandy? | Megan McArdle | November 19, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST“They are legal size and regular letter size,” she tells me.
And he brought out this large manilla envelope, legal size—oh, I think it was 10 by 14 or something—one of those large ones.
Warren Commission (8 of 26): Hearings Vol. VIII (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyThey frequently take lobsters under the minimum legal size and, after boiling them, pick the flesh.
The Lobster Fishery of Maine. | John N. CobbNo; a legal size paper—it was a legal size notebook—this size.
Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
So, the notebook was about the same size as a legal size pad; is that right?
Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyBefore this war the legal size of the national army was 25,000.
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