de facto
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˌdeɪˈfæktəʊ/, /dɪˈfæktəʊ/, /ˌdiːˈfæktəʊ/
- (America) IPA: /ˌdeɪˈfæktoʊ/, /dɪˈfæktoʊ/, /ˌdiˈfæktoʊ/
de facto (not comparable)
- (modal) In practice; in actual use or existence, regardless of official or legal status.
de facto (not comparable)
- In fact or in practice; in actual use or existence, regardless of official or legal status. (Often opposed to de jure.)
- Although the United States currently has no official language, it is largely monolingual with English being the de facto national language.
de facto (plural de factos)
- (Australia, NZ) 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.
- 1984, Sotirios Sarantakos, Living Together in Australia, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=tQzaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22de+factos%22|%22defactos%22&dq=%22de+factos%22|%22defactos%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=raE3T67dE8zomAWk5vyaAg&redir_esc=y page 141],
- One of the vendors was simple and straight; he said that it was his policy not to rent a house to de factos.
- 1984, Australian Senate, Senate Weekly Hansard, Volume 105, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=VDUWAAAAIAAJ&q=%22de+factos%22|%22defactos%22&dq=%22de+factos%22|%22defactos%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8583T9W5HfHumAWKnKGNAg&redir_esc=y page 2213],
- An incidental sideline to this little farce, I suppose we can call it, is that the Opposition, in this policy, seems to have reversed its so often stated policy in this place on de factos.
- 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, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6t1DjKFkTGIC&pg=PA383&dq=%22de+factos%22|%22defactos%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=G5k3T6j5Ds7imAX8xr2XDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22de%20factos%22|%22defactos%22&f=false 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.
- 1984, Sotirios Sarantakos, Living Together in Australia, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=tQzaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22de+factos%22|%22defactos%22&dq=%22de+factos%22|%22defactos%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=raE3T67dE8zomAWk5vyaAg&redir_esc=y page 141],
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