Trusty vs Legal - What's the difference?
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Reliable or trustworthy.
A trusted person, especially a prisoner who has been granted special privileges.
* 1941 , James Howell Street, In my father's house
*1953 , (Raymond Chandler), The Long Goodbye , Penguin 2010, p. 58:
*:The cell block is clean and doesn't smell of disinfectant. The trusties do all the work. The supply of trusties is always ample.
Relating to the law or to lawyers.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Having its basis in the law.
Being allowed or prescribed by law.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-23, volume=408, issue=8850, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (informal) Above the age of consent or the legal drinking age.
(US, Canada) Paper]] in sheets 8½ in × 14 in (215.9 [[millimetre, mm × 355.6 mm).
Trusty is a related term of legal.
As adjectives the difference between trusty and legal
is that trusty is reliable or trustworthy while legal is legal, lawful.As a noun trusty
is a trusted person, especially a prisoner who has been granted special privileges.trusty
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(trusties)- We usta have a rule that if a trusty shot an escaping convict, then the trusty would go free.
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(en adjective)Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}}
Waking life, passage=After 50 years, legal segregation is a distant memory, and race in America is not the unbridgeable chasm it once was. The country has a black president. The sort of comity that King evoked, in which the descendants of slaves and of slave owners “sit down together at the table of brotherhood”, can be found in many places, including the Deep South. The rate of marriage between blacks and whites is rising.}}
