licit in the PONS Dictionary

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However, free trade also increases the sheer volume of legal cross-border trade and provides cover for drug smuggling by providing ample opportunity to conceal illicit cargo in licit trade.
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The common denominator is that the places involved were fairly remote, the means for colonization barely licit, and the officers involved very exhausted at the time of writing their proclamations.
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The licit stuff is now as much of a problem as the illicit.
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Every such dispensation granted by him is valid, and when he acts from a sufficient motive it is also licit.
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They argued that the price difference between licit and illicit poppies would discourage farmers from participating, a problem that could be overcome only by massive subsidies.
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The licit drug made her feel scintillating, the brightest, thinnest and most charismatic of her friends.
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I do not find any valid reasons to deviate from this norm, by declaring licit the separation of the transmission of life from the marriage act.
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Unusually, sequences of consecutive /r/ and // are licit.
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Most are smuggled in from neighbouring countries with advanced chemical industries or diverted from a smaller number of licit handlers.
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The sale of poppy seeds delivered a significant proportion of the income from the licit opium crop.
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